Episode 21: Sunil Coushik of Prijector on making meeting rooms suck less

“Make everything about meetings more smart & actionable”

13 years after I first met this eclectic entrepreneur, in episode 21, Mike and I had the pleasure of hosting Sunil Coushik, CEO and Founder of Prijector, a smart hub that sits in meeting rooms and supports multiple video conferencing apps. Sunil formerly scaled Bubble Motion (Sequoia funded). We dove into a broad range of topics around meetings including:

• The problem Sunil noticed traveling to 10–12 countries every month and how that shaped the design of Prijector
• Crazy stats e.g. it still takes 16 minutes to start a meeting and get going
• Real meeting room problems: Stolen dongles, guess wi-fi, remote users
• Proprietary hardware v/s open software approach to meeting rooms
• Differentiating in a red ocean space of so many collaboration apps (a.k.a should you build another Skype?)
• Microsoft and Google approach, backward compatibility, need for APIs
• How teachers, pastors, and medical reps are using Prijector
• Sunil’s hacks to make powerpoint driven meetings more effective

You can follow Sunil on Twitter. Also check out their newest offering Peasy.