The Juggernaut Interviews: Founders
The Juggernaut Interviews: Founders
The Juggernaut
Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Hooked, on reimagining fiction
38 minutes Posted Jan 25, 2022 at 8:00 am.
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The Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur has been building companies for over 17 years. During her time as a founder, she’s seen a heck of a lot — both in terms of what has changed in Silicon Valley, and what hasn’t as much. She shares her thoughts on everything from fundraising — and being held to higher standards by VCs — to how to find your target audience to how she was working from home way before it was cool. Her latest company, Hooked, has raised millions of dollars to reimagine how teenagers read fiction on their phones. She is also an artist and bookworm. Spoiler alert, we get to hear her sing.