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Venky Harinarayan

Venky Harinarayan
Born
Venkatesh Harinarayan

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materStanford University (PhD), IIT Madras, (B.Tech)
Occupation(s)Cambrian Ventures, Kosmix and Junglee Corp

Venkatesh "Venky" Harinarayan is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University (1997, under Jeffrey Ullman)[1] and a masters from UCLA. Bachelor of Technology He completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988). While at Stanford, Harinarayan co-wrote a paper[2] on implementing data cubes with Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, which is among the top 600 most cited computer science articles over the last 20 years.[3]

Together with four other engineers, Harinarayan founded Junglee Corp. in 1996. Junglee Corp. pioneered Internet comparison shopping.[4] Junglee Corp. was acquired by Amazon.com Inc. in August 1998 for 1.6 million shares of stock valued at $250 million.[5] Harinarayan then became general manager at Amazon.com, where he worked with founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to help create Amazon.com's marketplace business. Marketplace is currently[when?] Amazon.com's most profitable and fastest-growing business, accounting for almost 25% of all US transactions.[6] Harinarayan also was an inventor of the concept[7] underlying Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk.

Harinarayan and his business partner, Anand Rajaraman, co-founded Cambrian Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, in 2000. Cambrian went on to back several companies later acquired by Google. Cambrian funded companies like Mobissimo, Aster Data Systems and TheFind.com.[8] In 2017, Harinarayan became a special partner to NeoTribe Ventures.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Venkatesh Harinarayan". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ with Rajaraman, Anand; Ullman, Jeffrey D. (1996). "Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently". Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '96. pp. 205–216. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.41.1205. doi:10.1145/233269.233333. ISBN 978-0897917940. S2CID 3104453.
  3. ^ Most Cited Computer Science Articles (501–600), CiteSeer. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
  4. ^ Walter, Mark. "Junglee Tries to Tame the Data Jungle" xml.com. 5 August 1998. Retrieved on 1 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Amazon.com buys Junglee, PlanetAll", Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. 5 August 1998. Retrieved on 20 July 2009.
  6. ^ Venky Harinarayan, Founding Partner, Cambrian Ventures. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
  7. ^ Venky Harinarayan et al., Hybrid machine/human computing arrangement, United States Patent, 27 March 2007
  8. ^ Ranganathan, Chandra and NS Ramnath. "Men Who Spurn Google create Kosmix" The Economic Times. 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 17 March 2009.
  9. ^ Griffith, Erin (17 February 2017). "Term Sheet -- Friday, February 17". Fortune. Retrieved 24 June 2018.

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