“ZENPod” Season-2, episode 6, (part 2) featuring Sean Blagsvedt, a TED Fellow, founding member of Microsoft Research India, GES Entrepreneur, Unreasonable Goals Entrepreneur and recipient of the Namma Bengaluru award for Best Foreign Resident.
He holds 29 patents, degrees in Computer Science and Public Policy from Brown University and writes for the WorldBank and others at http://blagsvedt.com.
‘Empathy is one of my favourite values and one of the things that I respect the most when I see it in others….’– says Sean Blagsvedt in his talk with Venkatesh Mahadevan
Sean moved to Bangalore in 2004 as the 3rd founding member of Microsoft Research India. Earlier, Sean was a Program Manager in the UX teams of Office and Windows. He also was a White House intern with President Clinton's Internet Policy Czar, Ira Magaziner.
Formerly, Sean was the Founder and CEO of Babajob.com, India's largest digital job marketplace for the aspiring labor, with over 8.5 million users and acquired by Quikr in June 2017. Sean is also a Principal at Jaaga.in and Dara.Network.
Sean lives in Bangalore, India and is married to Archana Prasad, founder of Jaaga.in and the Bengaluru Fantastic tech art festival. They share a wonderful son, Vyom, a love of music, architecture and techart and a street dog named Berlin.
“ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life’s pursuit.
