How HackerRank took off by helping companies hire great programmers – with Vivek Ravisankar

Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank, Comeback, Customer Acquisition, Hiring, Indian Founders, International Founders, Marketplace, Mental Game, Outsourcing

Vivek Ravisankar’s HackerRank was down to its last 15 bucks. He was living in his parents house in India.

How did he and his cofounder, Hari Karunanidhi, turn things around? That’s what this interview is about.

Listen to how this duo discovered a product that businesses would eagerly pay for and scored over 700,000 users for HackerRank, the platform that helps hackers hone their skills and companies hire great programmers.

Vivek Ravisankar

HackerRank

Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi are co-founders of HackerRank, a community of over a million hackers and growing.

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Vivek Ravisankar is the founder of HackerRank, a platform that helps hackers hone their skills and helps companies hire great programmers. And he is here to talk about how he built his company and talk about a couple of really big setbacks that he had to overcome. This whole thing is sponsored by well, this page that I created. It’s called AndrewsWelcomeGate.com. if you are looking to have a page on your site that allows you to grow your mailing list, I have one page that will do it for you. And I want you to go and grab it from AndrewsWelcomegate.com. AndrewsWelcomeGate.com is the sponsor....

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