Upendra Shardanand is a Alpha Edison. Founder Protagonist. Firefly, Accelerator Group, Daylife. Ex-MSFT, TWX, Samsung. MIT Media Lab. at Alpha Edison. They possess expertise in entrepreneurship, start ups, strategy, product management, strategic partnerships and 28 more skills. They is proficient in French. Colleagues describe them as "Upendra was my boss at Daylife and the kind you want to have - supportive, creative, motivating, challenging in constructive ways to do your best. I learned and grew a lot as an engineering manager under his leadership. One of the things I appreciated most about Upendra as CEO was his relentless effort to "create the kind of company I would want to work for". He took our values and culture seriously and invested in getting this right. Upendra set a high bar for leadership excellence that I can't help but use as a gauge for all of my bosses since as well as for myself.", "I worked closely with Upendra at the Samsung Accelerator. I was inspired by the reach of his understanding about markets, monetization, and users, but most of all with his interest in doing good. While at Samsung he managed our team and product development well — moving us along briskly and purposefully. Half of our team worked remotely, and he took extra care to ensure we were communicating well and our remote teammates felt included. Personally, I feel lucky for our time together. In my work since, I often draw upon ideas he exposed me to, and skills I developed under his watch.", and "I've had the pleasure of working with Upendra a number of times over the last 15 years or so. He is consistently one of my go-to people when I need a fresh take, a sanity check, or ideas in areas as wide ranging as algorithms to marketing. Upendra's vision, execution, leadership and professional network are second to none. Most recently I worked with Upendra at The Samsung Accelerator where he was one of the first senior hires. He invented a novel platform with the potential to shake up an established and sleepy market and to turn a healthy profit. As with his other startups he assembled a top-notch team of technology, design and product folks, and set about thoughtfully building and testing his game-changing idea. As with much of Upendra's work there was an aspect of subtly make the world a better place while building a great company. In addition to crafting his product Upendra helped to build the Accelerator by attracting great talent, and setting a tone which was at once fun, funny, intellectually rigorous, ethical and visionary. I look forward to having Upendra in my reality for many years to come. He creates, inspires, and adds value at every turn and I have been a beneficiary of all that and more for well over a decade. Hard to beat."