Diversity & Inclusion

Startups can be family-friendly, but most aren’t: Prasanna Krishnan

Krishnan, the CEO of SmartyPAL, spoke to the Motherboard Podcast about the hardships of working at a startup during her first pregnancy. “Being a parent doesn’t mean you become any worse at your job.”

Prasanna Krishnan with her son. (Photo via Motherboard Podcast)

For Prasanna Krishnan, the hardest part of being a new mother at a startup wasn’t the workload or balancing time with her newborn. It was that the people she worked with at Jetsetter weren’t parents. They didn’t understand what she was going through. (That, and rushing home for lunch to pump breast milk because all the conference rooms in the office were glass.)
That’s why her second pregnancy will likely be easier, she said in an interview with Motherboard Podcast, a podcast focused on mothers in the tech scene. Krishnan is the CEO of edtech startup SmartyPAL. Most of the members of her team are parents.
Krishnan spoke to Motherboard about the perks of having a home office, the importance of building a family-friendly company culture and what her son is learning as SmartyPAL’s unofficial quality assurance staffer.
Listen

Companies: SmartyPAL
Engagement

Join our growing Slack community

Join 5,000 tech professionals and entrepreneurs in our community Slack today!

Donate to the Journalism Fund

Your support powers our independent journalism. Unlike most business-media outlets, we don’t have a paywall. Instead, we count on your personal and organizational contributions.

Trending

What internet speed do you really need?

How DC protesters are protecting themselves online while calling out the Trump administration

Developing tech for government agencies? Participant advisory councils can help get it right.

Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years

Technically Media