Lakshmi Shankar
General Partner
Loves: Playing tennis and has been to Wimbledon Center Court for the last 18 years.
Enjoys: Cooking – makes a mean Thai Green Curry and Papaya Salad!
Favorite Quote:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
Passionate about: Helping teams, building products and scaling companies!Strong belief: Great founders like great leaders are not necessarily born, but can be developed, through a combination of hunger, hard work and humility. Hunger to be world class. Hard work to push your limits every day. Humility to learn from everyone!
Prior to joining Together, Lakshmi was the VP of Product Strategy for Google Search and launched GenAI in Search and prior to that was an ex-Twitter exec who worked directly with Jack Dorsey. Lakshmi started his career at IBM building enterprise SaaS products before Cloud was thing and moved to EY as a Management Consultant in M&A in the UK. In addition to his role at Together, Lakshmi is a visiting lecturer at IIT Madras and teaches AI and Entrepreneurship class at the Wadhwani School of AI & Data Science.
