Pooja Sankar blogged on Women 2.0 a few months ago: "As a teenager, I never went outside alone, spoke to a boy other than my brother, or wore jeans or a short skirt." The former Facebook engineer went ...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Piazza founder Pooja Sankar and learned how her struggles in school inspired her to build an online question-and-answer platform for students to learn together.

Three days after giving birth to her son, Pooja Sankar was already fielding phone calls from work. Sankar, founder and CEO of Palo Alto's Piazza, an online gathering place for college students and ...

Close to a million college kids use Piazza. Pooja Sankar, the apps' creator, says her company can't solve all the problems for women in computer science but she hopes it's making a difference. Think ...

In the Women Entrepreneur series My First Moves, we talk to founders about that pivotal moment when they decided to turn their business idea into a reality—and the first steps they took to make it ...

When college students go back to campus this Fall, many will be using a new website to discuss assignments and help each other out. The site, free student question and answer service Piazza, is the ...

Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. Her premise was that a key link between professors and students was broken.

Think back to what it was like in school when you didn't quite understand what the teacher was saying. You wanted to stop, ask a question, but maybe you were scared of seeming stupid. And if you ...