Still, being the pragmatic CEO that she is, Sankar got down to business and created a plan.
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Pooja Nath Sankar is the founder and CEO of Piazza it means town square in Italian.
For example, students who are alone late at night and need help for a class, Sankar says.
Sankar hopes to accomplish this goal through word of mouth from satisfied users who tell their colleagues about Piazza.
As more and more people answer a question it becomes like a Wikipedia for the individual class, Sankar says.
Until March 2011, Sankar said Piazza had three people and as of January 2012, it employed 10 some part-time.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Shyam Sankar.
The service naturally discourages cheating because everyone who is part of a class page can see what other people are saying, Sankar says.
Sankar was one of three women in her computer science class in college in India and had few close friends to ask for help.
Sankar sent me a comment from MIT professor Charles Leiserson.
Sankar mentioned that professors are particularly helpful in spreading the word.
As she told me in a January 17th interview, Sankar attended an all-girls high school in India and was then admitted to one of its top engineering programs IIT Kanpur, India.
The site, free student question and answer service Piazza, is the brainchild of former Facebook, Kosmix and Oracle engineer Pooja Sankar, who felt a need for students to be able to connect with each other around their classes.
But the tourists were further frustrated by a final-wicket partnership of 37 between Das, batting at nine after hitting 124 as an opener on the first day, and Shiv Sankar Paul, who took 5-61 on Saturday in England's first innings score of 225.
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