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Meet Kirthiga Reddy, founder of Virtualness, and former Managing Director of Facebook in India. She has been featured in Fortune's "Most Powerful Women'' list from 2011 to 2016 and as Fast Companyβs Most Creative People in Business in 2013..
In this interview episode of βWiping Out the Normβ, Kirthiga shares with us her inspiring journey from a small town called Nanded, to working at top US-based tech companies, leading the Facebook India team as their first employee and Managing Director and being the First Female Investment Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, one of the largest tech funds in the world with $130B under management
After completing her Engineering in Computer Science in Nanded, Kirthiga climbed the academic and career ladder by pursuing further education in the US, completing an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an MBA at Stanford, where she graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar.
From a student at Stanford, with her exceptional technical expertise and leadership skills, she went on to serve as Chair of the Stanford Business Management Board.
Balancing ambition with familial dedication, Kirthiga spoke about the pause she took in her career to prioritize her daughters and how it helped her to connect with new opportunities. In our conversation, Kirthiga highlightedΒ
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Watch our full conversation with Kirthiga as she shared with us many more learnings from her career.
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