Summary: Everyone has their own story, but few people experience like Ramona Pierson is so bumpy but inspiring. Pierson is the CEO of a hidden start-up company called the Pierson Laboratory (Pierson Labs) (a company that avoids competitors ' attention). There are good reasons.
Everyone has his own story, but few experiences are as Ramona and inspiring as Pierson.
Pierson is the CEO of a hidden start-up company called the Pierson Laboratory (Pierson Labs) (a company that avoids competitors ' attention). There are also good reasons to include it in the most innovative list of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs--with the background that has been able to show that Pierson is not a simple role.
Business Insider recently interviewed her and her co-founder, Nelson González, at Pierson's headquarters in Palo City (Palo Alto).
Pierson was lucky for herself, and after all that she was still alive, walking, talking, thinking, not to mention starting her own second start-up, the main focus of data (Big-data) educational software.
1984 Pierson22 years old, a dog went out jogging with a drunken driver hit, the car was crushed from the face, throat, heart, lungs and legs, and she had a heart attack after 18 months in a coma-but Pierson did not die of a heart attack that awakened her from a coma. At that time, she was only 29 kilograms, could not see, can not speak or eat.
After more than 50 surgeries, Pierson has a new body--fitted with an artificial nose, plastic eyes, a titanium alloy or a bone removed from a corpse--pierson in a Ted speech in 2011, said, "Finally I have a normal appearance."
Today, Pierson looks healthier, she looks full of glamour and goes back to being a former Navy soldier-but she's going through a long recovery exercise. During the naval Service, Pierson learned the code. The experience gave her an interest in neuroscience during her time in service, and wrote a set of algorithms to diagnose the battlefield's head injuries. She continued her research, focusing on how humans learn and getting a job as a science teacher in Seattle Public schools. During his tenure, a social network was created for the school's teachers and students, called the Source.
Then Pierson started his first venture: Synapticmash, an education software company, was bought in 2010 by Promethean World in 10 million dollars.
But the injury still haunts her. When the bones from the body are placed in the body, they occasionally break during running and need to be replaced. She had a problem with her toes last year.
But she showed tenacity in the surgery, and even the first start-up company Synapticmash sold her on a hospital bed, and it's hard to imagine she was on the operating table 15 minutes ago. She told Business Insider that I refused to use narcotic analgesics, and instead opened my laptop and landed Skype to complete the sale of the first company.
Aside from the experience of suffering, Pierson is an optimistic, hopeful and energetic person with a humorous and charismatic spirit. The writer of the penalty gold even started writing the script for her.
Her new company is expected to be more successful than the last. While Pierson Labs will continue to remain as an invisible company next month, it is said to have talked about several big clients and has courted a partner from Khosla, a VC company, as his personal advisor.
Company's existing staff of about 20 people, mainly responsible for large data to write a name called "Declara" platform. González said that the platform can analyze the massive data, help teachers to create more personalized courses for students, but also for enterprises to train staff.
The company is also running new projects. Pierson said that the Hall of Fame footballer Ronnie Lott, as an investor, found Pierson seeking technical support for the idea of a more secure football campaign. By connecting the sensors to the player's body, the platform is able to analyze biological skills and assess injuries.
Pierson is also a member of Silicon Valley's power couple. Her partner, Debra Chrapaty, is Zynga's former chief information Officer (CIO) who recently moved to Khosla, a cloud storage technology start-up company, Nirvanix as CEO.