Most of us reading this post may still be clueless about what we want to do with our lives. Shaheen Mistry, Founder and CEO for Teach for India is one of the few fortunate ones who discovered her calling (Education for under privileged children) quite early in life and has been pursuing the dream for last 21 years relentlessly.
Listening to her, voice brimming with passion and excitement, its hard to believe her when she tells you that she herself was a shy and nervous child growing up who could never walk upto strangers and ask for a favor. From there to dreaming about impacting lives of 320 Million children in India – the journey has been nothing short of a dream. Read on…
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Dr. Armin Bruck has been the MD and CEO of Siemens Limited since 2008. Armed with a PhD in Operations Research and a Business degree in Economics and Informatics, Dr. Bruck has been associated with this company since his student days. Read as he tells us about his rather interesting and inspiring journey from intern to heading Siemens operations in India, along with some helpful advice for students just starting out in their careers.
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Sitting across the coffee table, engaged in a free-wheeling chat, I have to often remind myself that I am in conversation with the CEO of redBus – recently rated as one of the world’s top 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company – and the man behind 10Mn+ bus journeys in India; and not an old school friend – such is the ease and warmth of Phanindra Sama’s, popularly known as Phani, personality.
From a shy small town boy from Andhra Pradesh to building a business worth Rs. 300Cr+ in annual revenue and revolutionizing the way India booked bus tickets along the way; Phani is a role model for many. In this candid one on one conversation with Internshala, Phani shares lessons from his journey starting from his college days till date. Read on…
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Deepinder Goyal is the Founder and CEO of Zomato (www.zomato.com) – India’s leading restaurant and night life guide. Founded in 2008, Zomato has grown from zero to 4 million users a month in 4 years and has become a poster boy of India’s start up folklore.
Before starting Zomato, Deepinder (a Mathematics and Computing graduate from IIT Delhi) worked with consultancy firm Bain & Company for ~4 years which is where he stumbled upon the idea of Foodiebay (erstwhile name for Zomato) when he saw a great demand for restaurant menus among his colleagues!
Deepinder is also one of the first few ‘strangers’ whom I wrote to before starting Internshala asking for advice and was pleasantly surprised to find a prompt and detailed reply from him in my inbox despite it (New Year) being the busiest time of the year. And the mystery to why Zomato is loved and trusted so much by its users was solved!
In this short interview, Deepinder shares his internship experience and what he learned from it along with some of the key lessons from Zomato journey. Read on…
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