Rajat Paharia

Rajat Paharia is the CEO and founder at Bunchball Inc. Prior to Bunchball, Mr. Paharia served as a Director in the Software Experiences Practice at IDEO, where he spent four years executing and managing design and innovation work for clients in a diverse range of industries. Before IDEO, Mr. Paharia worked in various engineering, research and management positions for ViewStar, IBM Research and Philips Consumer Electronics. Mr. Paharia received his BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and MS from Stanford University in Computer Science, with a focus on Human Computer Interaction.

Bunchball partners with companies looking to enhance their online communities by adding casual gaming products that give the communities a new level of interaction and loyalty

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Report from the trenches

(Editor’s note: VentureBeat hadn’t heard from Silicon Valley start-up Bunchball in a while, so we asked CEO Rajat Paharia to tell us what it is like out there on the front lines. Here’s his report.)

In January 2005, I left my job with no idea what I was going to do next. I talked to a lot of smart people at startups and in venture capital, and they all said that if I had an… Continue Reading