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Nikhil Chandhok was an Entrepreneur in Residence at GV. Nikhil Chandhok joined GV from YouTube, where he served as Director of Product Management and spent more than six years in a variety of roles. Nikhil Chandhok led YouTube's music efforts for more than four years and helped make YouTube one of the most prominent destinations for music on the Internet. Under his leadership, many key capabilities were added to the YouTube platform, including mobile and device streaming, paid subscriptions, and live streaming. He also led YouTube's TV advertising efforts and helped grow the business to be the TV ad network in the U.S. Prior to Google, Nikhil Chandhok helped create the enterprise storage and virtualization businesses as a product manager at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, he co-founded a telecom startup while in graduate school. Nikhil Chandhok has an M.S. in computer science from Ohio State University.