Ruchi Sanghvi – Engineer

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:34 -0400

Then: First female engineer, 2005 to 2010. Launched Newsfeed and developed Platform and Connect.

Now: Ms. Sanghvi left in 2010 and started her own super stealth startup, Cove, which had five employees and did something that "straddled the line between consumer and internet" raised a seed round of financing from investors including early Facebook investor Peter Thiel and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Ms. Sanghvi herself is an investor in Facebook alumni projects Path and Asana. UPDATE: Cove was acquired by Dropbox.

Ms. Sanghvi married another Facebook alumnus, Aditya Agarwal, and their wedding has its own Quora subject. Facebook is "one of the best companies to be working at right now," Ms. Sangvhi told the Huffington Post in September, although she noted it was "difficult to break into the boys' club."

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Ruchi Sanghvi – Engineer