Sanjay Nediyara

Currently founder and CEO at StartGlobal helping businesses go Global. We are funded by some of the iconic investors in silicon valley including Twitter founder Biz Stone. Pioneering truly internet companies, our larger vision is to build internet companies in the cloud where people can form companies and work from anywhere in the world. We are currently serving businesses from 150+ countries across the world.

Journey

• 2010 Lost about 80% of hearing.
• 2011 Rejected for jobs as I could not get on client calls.
• 2012 Landed a programming job at $120/month.
• 2015 Continued learning, working, and building startups.
• 2016 Received a $120,000 job offer.
• 2018 Rejected a Facebook job offer to continue building my startup.

Along the way

• Met Indian President at Festival of Innovation 2017
• Forbes fellow
• Reach award winner (Eric Weihenmayer Foundation, US)
• Google I/O conference guest invitation
• 2+ million StackOverflow reach (top 4% globally)
• Draper University alumni
• Created a Facebook app with thousands of monthly users
• Shipped 12+ mobile applications
• Built a developer community to 1000+ members with Google
• Published an Android resource ebook (42 countries, thousands of monthly readers)

Press

• Why the decision not to commit suicide was the best decision of my life?
• Bad attitude, the only disability in life
• Business Insider: Twitter co-founder invests in Sieve
• Bloomberg Quint: Twitter founder to invest in Sieve