About Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya is the author of the bestseller “Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works” and “Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth”. He is the creator of the one-page business modelling tool “Lean Canvas”.
Ash is well-known among entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs because of the practical and useful pieces of advice he gives about business. With his “Lean Canvas”, he managed to develop a systematic methodology to increase the success rate of the product you’re building. As a business blogger, his posts have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune.
On top of that, he regularly hosts workshops and gives guest lectures at various universities such as MIT, Harvard and UT Austin. He was also a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory and has a spot on the advisory board of a number of startups.
His motto: Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.
