Neil Parikh is co-founder and COO of Casper, the world’s first sleep brand and a start-up that makes a mattress with proprietary sleep technology and ships it directly to consumers. He is the co-founder of WaterWalla, a social enterprise that helps people living in urban slums access clean water, and founder of Consignd, which connects seller to content creators. Parikh has also designed bacteria and worked as a research associate in the NASA Robotics Academy at Goddard Space Flight Center, where he co-authored three patents. He was named to Forbes’s 2015 30 Under 30 list for retail, among other recognition.
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