Govind Balakrishnan

Govind grew up in India wanting to become a physicist. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology and quickly realised that it was a glacial way to change the world. His second love was media and he moved to London, eventually leading on strategy for BBC News.
He got to witness first-hand the challenges facing a modern media organisation, and how great reporting and insight can go to waste when a correspondent was sent to the front-lines in Afghanistan at considerable expense only for the story to get less than a few minutes of airtime. He resolved to find a way to help users discover such insight and give great journalism greater impact.
After studying at Royal College of Art and Imperial College at the intersection of design and engineering, he and his close friend Srikant.