Bansal serves or has served as a member of the board of directors of CSRA, a technology services provider to the US government, Cvent, a cloud-based event management software provider,[3] and The Advisory Board Company, a technology research services company.
His father's work ethic and emphasis on math and science in childhood has been cited as the foundation for his later education and career.
Directly out of college, Sanju Bansal worked for the technology and management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.
[citation needed] In 1989, with MIT classmates Michael J. Saylor and Thomas Spahr, Bansal co-founded MicroStrategy.
[5] Bansal helped build MicroStrategy with no venture capital, often working 80 to 100 hours per week to get the company off the ground.
[9] In December 2000, Saylor, Bansal, and the company's former CFO settled with the SEC without admitting wrongdoing by each paying $350,000 in fines.
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