Prasanna Sankar

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prasanna Sankar

• He worked as an intern at Google in 2006.

• While studying in college, he participated in several programming competitions and was ranked No. 1 programmer at TopCoder.

• He was also a two-time Google Code Jam world finalist and a two-time ACM ICPC world finalist during college.

• He met his wife in 2007 while they were in college in NIT (National Institute of Technology), Tiruchirappalli, and started dating each other two years later.

  

• He worked as a software developer at Microsoft in Vancouver, Canada, from June 2008 to October 2009.

• In 2009, he co-founded Likealittle, a campus social network in the San Francisco Bay Area, and served as its CTO (Chief Technology Officer) until 2013.

• The company was a big success initially, registering nearly 20% of US campus students as users within the first six months and receiving acquisition offers from Google and Facebook. The company ended its operations in 2012.

• He served as the director of engineering at Zenefits in the San Francisco Bay Area from January 2015 to May 2016.

• In May 2016, he co-founded Rippling, a workforce management software company in the San Francisco Bay Area and served as its CTO until July 2020.

• In January 2023, he founded 0xPPL, a social network for crypto natives.

• On 23 March 2025, he took to X (formerly Twitter) and posted a viral thread in which he claimed that he was on the run from the Chennai police as his wife had filed false cases against him. He further accused her of being unfaithful and wrote,

• When asked about his desire for open marriage by The San Francisco Standard, a US-based news organisation, he replied that his demand for open marriage from his wife occurred during a moment of anger as their marriage was ‘sexless,’ and said,
  

  I once in a moment of anger discussed about opening up the marriage to other sexual partners. We agreed not to do it.”

• During his divorce proceeding in 2025, he testified in court that he moved from Washington, US, to Singapore to reclaim his overseas assets without raising red flags with US tax authorities. He further acknowledged his belief that paying taxes in the US was wasteful.

• He is the director and advisor of Equus, an HR company.

• He is a travel enthusiast and has visited various countries, including Kazakhstan, New Zealand, and Singapore.