CK-12’s co-founder Murugan Pal talks about entrepreneurship, Web 3.0, semantic search, and how he discovered computer engineering in Part-2 of our conversation.

Murugan was an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Foundation Capital. But, what does an EIR do? How does one become an EIR? These are some of the questions that Murugan answers. One of his EIR stints led Murugan to co-found SpikeSource along with Ray Lane. SpikeSource is an open source integration and testing company that is currently headed by Kim Polese.

Numbers fascinate Murugan so it not surprising that he became an engineer. However, his first degree was in mechanical engineering and his first stint was working in an assembly line at Ashok Leyland’s factory in Chennai, India. Ashok Leyland is one of the largest commercial vehicles manufactures in India. During his first year of work at Ashok Leyland Murugan took an aptitude test that changed his career path. The results clearly underscored that he had an aptitude for computer engineering. He came to the US for his graduate studies in computer science and then moved to Silicon Valley where he worked with Oracle, Asera (he was a founding engineer), SpikeSource and CK-12, a non-profit organization.

If you missed, you might want to listen to the first part of the interview with Murugan Pal.

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