195 Mona Akmal On Her Journey From Moving From Pakistan To The US And From Engineer At Microsoft To CEO/Co-Founder Of Falkon AI | What's On Your Mind?

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EP 195 Mona Akmal On Her Journey From Moving From Pakistan To The US And From Engineer At Microsoft To CEO/Co-Founder Of Falkon AI | What's On Your Mind?  

Personal Development, mindset & selling are on my mind all the time. My name is Peter and I created a weekly Podcast called What is on YOUR mind. Learn from my entrepreneurial guests how they overcame challenges, growth, failure and massive success.  

Mona Akmal moved to the U.S. from Pakistan at age twenty with 3 things: A CS undergrad degree, an engineering job at Microsoft, and a network of 0 people. Two decades later, she’s led teams and built lasting products at top companies including Microsoft, Amperity, Code.org, and Zulily.  

As the VP of Product & Engineering at Code.org, she was responsible for the deployment of over 100 hours of computer science curriculum to over 100 million K-12 students in the US and globally. Over 5 billion lines of code have been written by students on the Code.org website using these courses alone.  

She was responsible for finding product-market fit as Head of Product at Amperity as the company launched its first product, driving from $0 to $11M in ARR with 15 household brands as happy customers. She delivered an enterprise-scale customer data platform to marketers and data users at large consumer brands so they can compete in a competitive landscape.  

As a product and engineering veteran, Mona loves building elegant solutions to technically challenging problems. Given this passion, she realized that go-to-market teams simply don’t have the data-backed insights to make smarter operational decisions. 

So she took matters into her own hands in 2019 and founded Falkon, a go-to-market AI platform that helps GTM teams win more deals, more efficiently, to drive more revenue. 

Connect with Mona on social media: http://falkon.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-akmal/  

Big thanks to Tanya Thomas of The Expert Bookers www.expertbookers.com for introducing me to Mona ! 

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