Author Darshan Somashekar

Darshan Somashekar is a technology entrepreneur who has built & sold two startups. His latest fun project is a solitaire site called Solitaired. Previously, Darshan co-founded drop.io, a media sharing startup that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. He also co-founded Imagine Easy Solutions, a research and citation platform, which was acquired by Chegg in 2016. Darshan served as Chegg’s VP of Product for its newly-formed Writing Tools group until his transition in mid-2019. He now focuses on angel investment, advisory, and entrepreneurship.

Darshan graduated from Brown University with a degree in Public Policy & American Institutions. He worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in New York after graduation.