A creative online surveying solution for employees
The average response rate for surveys isonly 26 percent.
Thats why Samir Diwan built a tech solution to help businesses gather employee data more efficiently.
Diwan is the co-founder and CPO ofPolly, developer of a workplace tool and engagement software.
Samir Diwan
Samir Diwan
Founded in 2014, Polly’s platform is an employee experience solution.
It’s an engagement tool built for communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Ive been trained in my life to accept that things arent always fair.
Polly
During his undergraduate studies senior year, Diwan took his first entrepreneurship class.
He was studying to be a computer engineer, but hearing from different entrepreneurs piqued his interest.
He worked at Microsoft for eight years before taking that leap into the startup world.
“I always wanted to, but in the beginning, it felt counterintuitive.
“It was so much stress, but eventually, I felt like I needed to do something.”
It wasn’t easy for him, especially since he left a job that felt safe and stable.
Focusing on Empowerment
Diwan said empowerment is the main driving point for Polly’s work.
Polly has a team of 30 remote employees.
Airport staff has detained him for no reason in front of his group of diverse friends in the past.
He has tough skin and has accepted that this is how the world is after 9/11.
“Part of that is just, you grow up being a little different.
I grew up knowing or feeling like I was second class.
But the way I’ve been mistreated hasn’t impacted my life so severely.
They’re inconveniences.”
Our vision is a world where every voice has the power to transform work.
Growing Polly since raising venture capital has been more challenging, Diwan said, because the expectations are higher.
“People interact differently; they work differently,” Diwan said.
“Finding new channels and new ways to get to a voice is critically important for us.”
