Entrepreneurship is one of the riskiest at the time exhilarating things ever done. However, to plunge into this field, one required a strong will, readiness to invest the time, and lots of energy. It will be no wrong to say that a born entrepreneur surely has this quality. Such a person can see what a common person can not. They grab the opportunity and do something extraordinary which cannot be done by everyone. Shishir Mehrotra is one such entrepreneur who started Coda with a very simple observation.
With the co-founder Alex DeNeui, Shishir builds a customizable doc that was needed in the modern world. Since the 1970s, there has been a huge evolution in the workplace tools like spreadsheets. But no one ever noticed that these tools can build such that it will be customizable to meet the requirements of every team. However, Coda made it simple to customized doc and spreadsheets in one place rather than using a separate one.
About Coda
It is a cloud-based document editor platform based in Seattle, San Francisco. After a few months of establishment, Coda attracts several investors because of its unique approach and popularity in the market. Khosla Ventures, Greylock Partners, and General catalyst are top investors in Coda. In fact, the firm raised more than 60 million dollars in 2017. However, it launched the first software version 1.0 in 2019.
This software enabled several database functions and word processing. In fact, its a perfect blend of several work tools. Includes, presentations, spreadsheets, doc, and some other apps. As well, it can be integrated with Gmail and Slack.
Glimpse to the life of Founder and CEO-Shishir Mehrotra
Shishir Mehrotra is a well-known personality in the digital industry. He was part of several innovative technologies throughout his career. For that, Shishir set the name among the list of top most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology.
Education
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. As well, holds a degree in Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the same university.
Career and Business Ventures
Shishir Mehrotra is in limelight since establishing a brand new platform called Coda. However, he had worked as a director of several firms in his career. Including, INVIDI Technologies Corporation, and Spotify Technology S.A. As well, he served as a Director of Product Management for Google TV Ads, YouTube Ads at Google Inc as well as at Microsoft.
Also, Shishir shared a great contribution to brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. Apart from that, Mehrotra held important positions at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
How does Coda form?
The founder of Coda, Mr. Shishir Mehrotra was part of the YouTube team. That time, YouTube just born out of the shell and soon people started using it for creating their videos. As well, YouTubers started selling their crafts, creating YouTube channels. It was the perfect example of allowing users to turn into the maker, which users liked.
Shishir and Alex observed that it is the new phase of the software. People are changing, they needed such a solution that can be modified as per their requirements. Thus, they decided to start the new phase of software with Coda. With Coda, they allowed users to create their own tools as per their convenience.
Exploration of Coda
After a few months of establishment, several investors showed interest in Coda. Including Khosla Ventures, Greylock Partners, and General catalyst. Initially, Coda opens it’s a platform as a beta version. Because it was the brand new platform and needed to study users’ preferences. However, users trusted the platform and many users like this change that allow them to design tools. In 2019, it launched the first software version 1.0.
Bottom Line
Coda rise as software that empowers people to develop their own tools on its platform. Also, allow to make these tools as powerful as apps. Surely, Coda enabled one doc instead of many with its powerful platform.
The journey started with a simple observation that why no one tries to change the structure of spreadsheets and other working tools. To change this, founders set a new standard in the software development field with Coda. Shishir Mehrotra showed that entrepreneurs can see that common people don’t. He set the example for future entrepreneurs.
Jayshri is an Electronics Engineer, but her passion towards writing made her to be in this field. Apart from content writing, she loves reading, writing and surfing on various topics. In her free time, she likes to watch TV series and news. Sherlock Holmes is her all time favorite show. Jayshri loves cooking various Indian-western dishes.