Dimdim Delivers Web Conferencing for All
The company’s far-flung founders tackled their info-sharing issues by creating a powerful, open-source conferencing solution.
Dimdim is about simplicity. From its name to its web conferencing software, the company strives for ease of use. “We want to democratize real-time, rich media collaboration,” says CEO DD Ganguly, who chose the name Dimdim not because of any relation to his first name, but because it’s memorable, easy to spell and has international appeal.
Though officially based in Boston, Dimdim’s founders and board members live all over the world. Ganguly travels the most, splitting his time mainly between India, Boston and San Francisco, while co-founders Prakash Khot and Jayant Pandit live in Boston and Ottawa, Canada, respectively.
The co-founders got the idea for Dimdim while brainstorming startup ideas from their far-flung locations. They were using Hotmail and Skype to communicate, but they needed more. They researched the web conferencing space, but were unhappy with expensive and complex legacy products and frustrated by the lightweight free ones–so they decided to build their own.
