#TheGoodCityShow #11 Chocko Valliappa of HireMee on solving the job problem across India for companies and students
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On this edition of the #TheGoodCityShow series, we have Chocko Valliappa - Founder HireMee - an AI-proctored online assessment platform providing freshers jobs - linking companies, students and colleges with Aditya Mendonca.
On this podcast, Chocko talks about what motivated him to start up, the problem he discovered in the market and his learnings from the journey so far.
Born into a family of entrepreneurs dating back to the 1920s, Chocko started his journey in Textiles and went on to learn about Coffee Plantations.
He co-founded an incubation company Valliappa Software Tech Park (VSTP), launching ORACLE, CISCO, Verifone in India 1995.
Some of the points that we discussed on TheGoodCityShow were:
- The growing Job Crisis in India
- How did he get the idea to start HireMee
- How as an Academic - running an educational institution, his team identified the problem they had every year when students were about to graduate and finding them skilled jobs
- How his latest startup venture - HireMee is tackling the problem?
- Innovating with AI - and the difference it brings to the market.
- How he defines success?
- Innovation in India and brand Salem.
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