Speaker: Rahul Saxena, Director of CREATE-X at Georgia Tech

Abstract: Treat a startup not as “a product to ship,” but as a socio-technical interaction system to be iterated until the smallest repeatable interaction reliably creates user progress. Optimize that interaction first; everything else (features, pricing, growth) composes around it.

Bio: Rahul Saxena is the Director of CREATE-X at Georgia Tech and previously served as Associate Director for the program’s Startup Launch accelerator. His career spans roles as a venture capitalist, startup CEO, entrepreneur, mechatronic design engineer, and published academic researcher.
Saxena earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a European Master’s degree in Fluid Mechanics from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, and an MBA from Emory University. He spent a decade with Seraph Group, a hybrid angel/venture capital firm, where he evaluated and invested in early-stage companies across all industries. During that time, he also served as CEO of a portfolio company and sat on multiple boards, with several companies achieving successful acquisitions.

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