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FOUNDER - EDUCATION SOFTWARE COMPANY: The Grass Isn't Always Greener

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Sidharth is the founder of Front Row Education, which creates adaptive math software for iPads for classroom use. He has had many different careers, including finance at an investment bank, food processing operations in rural India, and consulting. He tells us that we have to be weary about falling into a "the grass is always greener" mindset, because when you're stuck in the everyday semantics of you're job, you can sometimes forget how great it is.

School: Kellogg School - Carnegie Mellon University

Degree: Computer Science - Marketing - Finance and Financial Management Services - Business Management and Strategy

Job Title: Founder of Front Row Education

Employer: Self-Employed

Job Summary: Entrepreneurs

Job Description

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. An entrepreneur sees an opportunity and exercises initiative by organizing a venture to turn an idea into reality. An entrepreneur is often seen as a business leader and innovator of new ideas and business processes.

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Entrepreneurship is defined by risks and rewards. Most people who become entrepreneurs are more comfortable with risks; prefer unstructured working and learning environments and collaborating with small team of people.

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$0 - $200,000

Projected Job Growth

Not applicable

Typical schedule

Full-time, Long hours, Varies Widely

Typical workplace

Office, Remote, Indoor, Home

Personal Qualities

Problem solving skills, Creativity, Verbal communication skills, Leadership ability, Teamwork, People skills, Public speaking ability, Networking, Adventurous, Organizational skills, Courageous

Educational Path

Education Requirement

Bachelor's degree

Recommended Education Degree

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree

Recommended Majors

Business Administration and Management
Business
Business and Management
Finance
Economics
Liberal Arts
Public Administration
Entrepreneurial
Accounting
Computer Science
Engineering
Social Sciences

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Chief Executive Officer
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P3.instances[0].transcript.parse_transcript_data({"transcript":"Hi, my name is Sidharth Kakkar, and I'm the founder of Front Row Education, and we make adaptive math software for iPads for classrooms to use. It's like most jobs, it's highly varied. But some days I'm going to be spending a lot of time writing code. Some days I'll be doing a lot of time actually designing things. And some days I spend a lot of time just on the phone talking to as many people as possible, explaining what we do, and why they may want to use it, or why they may find it interesting, or why they may want to write press coverage about it. So I do things from trying to get press coverage, to trying to find investors, to trying to actually build the product, to designing the product, to actually finding folks to work with us on the product. It varies quite a bit, and that's probably the part I enjoy about it the most. No two days are alike. So my career and educational path is a little bit more diverse than most, likely. I was a computer science undergrad at Carnegie Mellon. After graduating I actually worked in finance. So I worked at an investment bank called Goldman Sachs. And after I worked there I went to rural India to work in food processing. So I spent about a year doing that. And I did a bunch of operations stuff there. After that, I went to business school at the Kellogg School. And there I studied marketing and finance, as well as management and strategy. And while I was there, I worked for two companies. I worked for a consulting company called, Bain & Company, and for a venture capital firm called, New World Ventures. Since then, after business school, I've been working on Front Row Education. So I've taken a lot of roads, and I've tried a lot of things. Yeah, it's funny because in a lot of the past jobs I've held, or the past experiences I've held, I sometimes was not satisfied, not because of the actual role itself, but because of something more internal. Until I did Front Row, I was never like truly happy. And I don't think it was necessarily just because of what I was doing, but it was also because of a mindset. So the thing that I wish I knew most is, not to fall too far into the trap of the grass is always greener type of effect. This is particularly true since I've lived mostly in cities, in New York, Chicago, and now here-- here is San Francisco-- where there's so many people that you meet on a daily basis. We're all doing different things, and everything just sounds so cool. And what you're doing sounds a little bit more blase, because, well, you're doing it, so you're intimately familiar with it. I think that's the big thing. Never to fall into that trap where everything else sounds cooler than what you're doing, because frankly, it probably isn't. ","file":{"id":255767,"video_id":"2701282603001","name":"69780020","duration":163093,"thumbnail_url":null}});