This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money...
The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, buil...
Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.
Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.
The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.
It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.
All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.
What hurts me is the fact that in India, a good doctor is one whom you have to take an appointment with even before you fall sick. Else, you will die but not get treated. A good school is one that won't admit you even if you are in Lower Kindergarten...
If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world.
I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.
Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, "You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday.
If the UN has not failed in maintaining world peace or bilateral relations between nations, it has definitely not succeeded either.
I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees.
Be a Person. Not a Resumé.
If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.
The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.
Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.
Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.