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Anshul Dhawan is a co-founder of Equally, a social education network for kids in AR. He heads the product and technology for the platform that uses Deep Learning, Cloud and Augmented Reality to deliver a perfect experience for the kids.

Anshul Dhawan was the head of product on the growth team at Zynga. He led a team of 4 product managers to understand the landscape of new emerging platforms for consumer internet across social networks, messaging apps, and social games. His team launched Words with Friends on FB Messenger and Apple's iMessage as the first games on the platform.

Before that, Anshul was the lead product manager for the Central Technology Group at Zynga, where he helped the CTO make build vs buy decisions for technologies that enabled studios to access the cloud, analytics, machine learning, payments and custom game technologies. He won the prestigious top employee of the company award for creating the new experimentation platform which became a core part of Zynga's core technology.

He is also the director of hackathons at Zynga, fostering innovation and creativity across the company reporting directly to the CEO. He started his career working for 3 years as a senior software engineer after graduating from USC's Computer Science program.

He is a visiting lecturer for Product Management 101 at Product School in SF and USC's Marshall School of Business.

Anshul has been a mentor at Google Launchpad Accelerator, helping startups with their product strategy, analytics, defining OKRs and milestones, optimizing their marketing strategies. He was also a mentor at Co.lab ( Zynga.org's edtech accelerator ), helping startups understand the mobile market ecosystem, product roadmap execution strategy, and consumer research.