Is the 26-year-old founder’s goal too ambitious? After all, Liquid Engines has been around for less than a year. Incorporated in March after months of painstaking research by Arora and co-inventor Edward Lazear, the company offers a solution to the “searching” problems of large and small companies.
Arora met Lazear, a professor of human resources management and economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, while working on a class project.
“Ed is the man behind the mathematics of Liquid Engines,” Arora says. “We wrote the equations together.” While trying to figure out how labor economics works, Arora discovered something truly innovative. “We came up with a [search] engine that can power pretty much any type of market that you can think of,” claims Arora.