Like many of us, Krishna Gupta gets his best ideas in the shower.
The ideas also come about on walks, reading the news, and listening to music, but it’s that “emptiness of simplicity,” that Gupta said helps him the most.
“I ideate best when there is a break from chaos” said Gupta, SB ’09. “It is the hardest state to achieve.”
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While not always chaotic, Gupta’s life is a busy one. In 2008 he started Romulus Capital in his MIT dorm room. Romulus was an early stage venture fund that invested in MIT-spun companies like ClassPass and Presto (which powers those now ubiquitous tableside tablets for ordering food), and Gupta sits on a variety of boards including at Cogito, another MIT-founded company, which offers voice-analytics software. Romulus Capital is now Remus Capital (named after the twin brothers of Roman mythology), and in 2019 Gupta sol
Bicycle Health, the virtual opioid use disorder therapy service, will soon be available in 25 states
The startup opioid use disorder therapy service Bicycle Health will soon be available to patients in half the country, just three years after its launch in 2017, according to founder Ankit Gupta.
A serial entrepreneur whose last company, Pulse News, was acquired by LinkedIn back in 2013, Gupta left LinkedIn in 2016 (around the time of the Microsoft acquisition) to pursue something more meaningful. He settled on trying to find a better way to address the opioid addiction epidemic, which was responsible for more than 42,000 deaths the year he left LinkedIn.