Rameet Chawla

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Rameet Chawla
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Born (1983-01-01) 1 January 1983 (age 35)
Residence New York City
Nationality United States
Alma mater New York University (M.P.S. 2004)
Known for Founder of Fueled
Website fueled.com

Rameet Chawla (born January 1, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, who is the founder and CEO of Fueled, a design and development company based in New York City, London, and Chicago. Chawla has contributed to the web development of several startup companies. [1]

New York City Largest city in the United States

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Chicago City in Illinois, United States

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Early life and education

After graduating from Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton in 2001, Chawla moved to New York City to attend New York University Stern School of Business, where he majored in information systems, finance, and international business. [2]

Spanish River Community High School is a public, coeducational high school in Boca Raton, Florida. It is part of the School District of Palm Beach County and serves the cities of Boca Raton and Delray Beach.

New York University private research university in New York, NY, United States

New York University (NYU) is a private research university originally founded in New York City but now with campuses and locations throughout the world. Founded in 1831, NYU's historical campus is in Greenwich Village, New York City. As a global university, students can graduate from its degree-granting campuses in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai, as well as study at its 12 academic centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C.

Finance Academic discipline studying businesses and investments

Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the art of money management. Participants in the market aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be split into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.

Career

Following the launch of the Apple App Store in 2009, Chawla founded Fueled, a mobile application development company based in New York City and London. [1] Fueled created mobile apps for companies and startups including American Express, Coca-Cola, Chicago Bulls, Wendy's, Condé Nast, and UrbanDaddy. [2] [3] [4]

Apple Inc. Technology company; developer of consumer electronics and multimedia platforms

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

The App Store is a digital distribution platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on its iOS operating system. The store allows users to browse and download apps developed with Apple's iOS software development kit. Apps can be downloaded on the iPhone smartphone, the iPod Touch handheld computer, or the iPad tablet computer, and some can be transferred to the Apple Watch smartwatch or 4th-generation or newer Apple TVs as extensions of iPhone apps.

American Express American multinational financial services corporation

The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its charge card, credit card, and traveler's cheque businesses.

Chawla is the co-founder of the Fueled Collective, a coworking space in downtown Manhattan that houses Fueled's NYC office alongside other startups. At any given time, the space hosts around 35 companies. The space has been ranked[ by whom? ] as one of the best-designed offices in Manhattan, noted for its use of vintage furniture and bespoke designs. [5]

Coworking shared workspace encouraging exchanges and openness

Coworking is defined in one trade magazine for coworking companies as a self-directed, collaborative, flexible and voluntary work style that is based on mutual trust and the sharing of common core values between its participants. Coworking involves a shared workplace, often an office, and independent activity. Unlike in a typical office, those coworking are usually not employed by the same organization. Typically, it is attractive to work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, independent scientists or people who travel frequently who end up working in relative isolation. Coworking is a social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently, but who share values and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with people who value working in the same place alongside each other. Coworking offers a solution to the problem of isolation that many freelancers experience while working at home, while at the same time letting them escape the distractions of home. It generally costs money in the form of membership dues, though some spaces are free of charge.

Manhattan Borough in New York City and county in New York, United States

Manhattan, often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City and its economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with the borough's long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.

Chawla is an angel investor in a number of early-stage startups, including Coinbase, Blue Bottle, and Artsy. [6]

Coinbase is a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Litecoin with fiat currencies in approximately 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.

In 2014, Chawla launched Lovematically, a mobile app and social experiment which automatically "liked" social media posts. It was quickly shut down by Facebook and Instagram. [7] [8] [9]

Facebook Global online social networking service

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Instagram Online photo-sharing and social networking service

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. A version for Android devices was released a year and half later, in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited website interface in November 2012, and apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 in April 2016 and October 2016 respectively.

Personal life

In 2013, Chawla was selected to be one of the 30 entrepreneurs in the NYC Venture Fellows 2013 class, [10] and was listed as one of The Next Web's 50 people to know in New York City's tech scene. [11]

In 2012, Chawla was listed as one of the 50 most stylish New Yorkers by StyleCaster. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rameet Chawla, Architect". Business Interviews. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Rameet Chawla". We Are NY Tech. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Fiegerman, Seth (12 July 2012). "Why Apps Are On iPhone First And Android Second". Business Insider. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Weber, Harrison (27 June 2013). "Design and development firm Fueled officially launches its boutique startup coworking space in New York". TheNextWeb. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Searer, Steven (15 February 2013). "Step Into The NYC Office Of Fueled East". Office Snapshots. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Rameet Chawla". AngelList. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  7. ↑ McCarthy, Tyler (14 February 2014). "Instagram Says No To Lovematically, A Web Service That Automatically 'Likes' All Posts". Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  8. ↑ O'Connor, Brendan (17 February 2014). "Lovematically: The social experiment Instagram shut down after two hours". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  9. ↑ Dickey, Megan Rose (14 February 2014). "If You Think Someone Likes Your Instagram Photo, Here's Proof That They Might Actually Not". Business Insider. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  10. ↑ "Who We Are — 2013 Fellows". NYC Venture Fellows. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  11. ↑ Myers, Courtney Boyd; Berger, Erica (25 September 2013). "50 people in NYC's tech scene that you need to know". The Next Web. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  12. ↑ Golden, Marni (21 March 2012). "50 Most Stylish New Yorkers: 2012 Edition". StyleCaster. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
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