S5 Bonus: From Software Engineer to CEO: How Silk & Sonder Built a High-Retention Wellness App with Meha Agrawal

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jul 15, 2021 · 33m

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Meha Agrawal grew up in a beach town. Her Dad is a professor of Computer Science, and her Mom worked at the University as well. In the 5 years before she was blessed with a sibling, her creativity and problem solving nature was cultivated by her parents.

The majority of her life she was chasing gold stars - A+'s on her assignments, targeting the doctor or engineer job - which led her to attend USC and study computer science and business administration. She wound up in NY working for Goldman Sachs, and she quickly realized that she didn't like engineering…