Osman Rashid
What: OPEN SV Mentorship Breakfast with Osman Rashid
When: 8:30-9:30AM, Friday, May 17th, 2013
Where: To be announced to registered attendees only – Santa Clara, CA
Registration: Required
- OPEN SV members – Free
- Non-members – $30
OPEN Silicon Valley Monthly Mentorship Breakfasts provide a terrific opportunity for entrepreneurs and industry professionals to meet with experts in their respective field, in a relaxed, informal setting, to build relationships and get valuable business and career feedback. Participants deliver an elevator pitch for 30 to 60 seconds, and the guest mentor provides immediate feedback, enabling fast, effective, accessible mentoring and relationship development.
This OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast event is hosted by Osman Rashid, Co-founder and CEO of Kno.
Osman, as co-founder of Chegg, knows something about textbook business. Chegg enabled cash-strapped college students to rent instead of buying textbooks. He is now changing how textbooks are delivered and used. He may have to go head -to-head with Apple who also wants to proliferate use of their iPad based textbooks.
Bloomberg TV Interviews Osman:
Osman Rashid, co-founder and chief executive officer of Kno Inc., talks about the market potential for the company’s new digital textbook and business outlook. Rashid speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack.” (Source: Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/62639038-kno-s-rashid-interview-on-digital-textbook.html
Osman serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Kno, where he develops the company strategy and products that make learning engaging, effective and social for students. As a serial entrepreneur, Osman has started and held key positions at a number of successful companies include ATIO Corp, Gravitywell, Chordiant and Chegg. As the founding CEO of Chegg, an innovative textbook rental company that has saved college students more than $400 million dollars, Osman grew the company twenty-five fold since its launch and turned it into a scalable operation. Ernst & Young named Osman the 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year for the coveted Northern California region. Mike Maples, an early investor in Digg and Twitter, has said that Osman Rashid is a world-class entrepreneur with the courage to be non-consensus and the right Jedi moves to pull it all off.
Please review coverage of previously held OPEN SV Mentorship breakfasts at: http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/programs/mentorship/breakfasts/
