Education
Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988).
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Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988).
Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corporation and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. While at Stanford, Harinarayan co-wrote a paper on implementing data cubes with Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, which is among the top 600 most cited computer science articles over the last 20 years. Together with four other engineers, Harinarayan founded Junglee Corporation in 1996.
Junglee Corporation pioneered Internet comparison shopping.
Junglee Corporation was acquired by Amazon.com Incorporated. in August 1998 for 1.6 million shares of stock valued at $250 million. Marketplace is currently Amazon.com"s most profitable and fastest-growing business, accounting for almost 25% of all United States transactions.
Harinarayan also was an inventor of the concept underlying Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Cambrian went on to back several companies later acquired by Google.
Cambrian funded companies like Mobissimo, Aster Data Systems and TheFind.com.
Harinarayan also helped create search advertising startup Efficient Frontier, and is a board member and founding investor. Efficient Frontier is now one of the 25 most valuable privately held companies in Silicon Valley, at an estimated $275 million valuation, according to Silicon Alley Insider.