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The what's what...

In just a moment, you'll meet Soham Khaitan - Co-Founder and COO of Ambi, a first-of-its-kind social learning network.

In high school, Soham's parents had encouraged him to pursue a career in consulting or work for a Fortune 500 brand (after graduating from college of course). But in his junior year at Babson College in Massachusetts, he was bit by the entrepreneurial bug and began to work on what would become Ambi.

In the episode, Soham discusses how he convinced the same folks who designed Instagram and Slack to design Ambi, and what it was like pitching Ambi, which is poised to compete with Facebook, to Arielle Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's sister.

Tune in to hear the origin story of the company that just might disrupt the Blackboards of the world and become the premier digital space where every college student comes to learn, network, and collaborate.

About the Podcast

Zach Busekrus

Host

Zach Busekrus

Zach is the Founder of Enrollify. He thoroughly enjoys building new brands, developing and executing content marketing strategies, and hosting podcasts. When he's not working on Enrollify, he enjoys discussing life's quandaries over coffee (or a good bourbon) with friends, building Sponstayneous (his travel brand side hustle), trying out new HIIT workouts, and adventuring across the globe with his wife!

Soham Khaitan

Interviewee

Soham Khaitan

Soham Khaitan is an entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Ambi. While in university, Soham and his business partner Saad realized that the intersection of college life, learning and technology were a problem—a connection among them didn’t exist. They co-founded ambi as a first-of-its-kind Student Experience Platform where students are inclined to begin and end their school day. With a centralized, intuitive design, Ambi enables student transformations and allows institutions and organizations to provide maximum value for all their offerings for the least amount of effort. Soham was named in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020. He was the Chapter Chair of the Young Next Generation Group at Young Presidents’ Organization**.

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