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Sanjit Biswas

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CEO at Samsara
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, a leading IoT company. A two-time founder, he previously co-founded and led Meraki, a cloud networking company acquired by Cisco for $1. 2 billion. He earned his B. S. from Stanford and his M. S. from MIT, where his Ph. D. research formed the basis for Merakis products.

Sanjit enjoys reading biographies of technology leaders to unwind and has a lifelong hobby of taking apart electronics to understand how they work. He and his wife, Hope, started the Biswas Family Foundation in 2023 to fund projects that democratize healthcare through science and technology. He has three young children.

Interesting fact: Sanjit was named one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Priorities

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AI in Operations
Leads Samsara in using sensor data and AI to help companies in logistics, construction, and utilities improve safety and efficiency in their physical operations.
Customer Centricity
Believes in a "big eyes, big ears" approach, emphasizing a strong customer feedback loop to understand real-world challenges and guide product development.
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Career

Work history

2015
CEO
Samsara
2012
Investor / Advisor
Startups
12-2012 - 2014
VP/GM Cloud Networking Group (Cisco Meraki)
Cisco Systems
4-2006 - 12-2012
CEO
Meraki, Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

EP 98: Sanjit Biswas (CEO, Samsara) on Building to $20B. Featured in Apple Podcasts
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Sanjit Biswas - CEO of Samsara - LSE Focal Point Podcast. Featured in Spotify
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Education
B.S.
Stanford University
M.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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