Sep 22-26, 2025
Los Altos High School
Shishir Mehrotra
CEO
Ideas to reality: The real skills it takes to turn an idea into a reality
Shishir will walk through stories of a key transformation moment for a set of products he’s worked on — from YouTube to Coda to Grammarly. How did a simple idea turn into a much bigger reality?
Meet the Speaker:
Shishir Mehrotra is the Chief Executive Officer at Grammarly. He’s a 25+ year tech veteran with a track record of building new platforms that redefine and lead categories. Prior to joining Grammarly, he was the CEO and co-founder of the business productivity and AI platform Coda and grew the platform to serve millions of users and tens of thousands of teams. Before founding Coda, he served as YouTube's Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer — helping grow YouTube to the world’s largest video destination, one of Google’s largest and fastest-growing businesses, and the platform of choice for a new generation of creators. Shishir holds a dual SB in mathematics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.