A business owner’s personal journey | Madhan Srinivasan | TEDxVITAP

27 Jul 2024 (2 months ago)

Madhan Srinivasan's Early Life and Education

Madhan Srinivasan shared a personal story about his father, a rice retailer, who faced financial hardship.
His father, unable to collect payments from customers, burned his business ledgers in frustration.
This event deeply impacted Madhan, who was eight years old at the time, and made him realize the importance of education and a stable career.
Madhan's own childhood was marked by financial struggles, including having to drop out of an English medium school due to his father's inability to pay fees.
His family later faced a devastating flood, forcing them to relocate to his mother's hometown.
Madhan's early experiences taught him valuable lessons about resilience, the importance of education, and the need to overcome adversity.
Madhan faced challenges during his engineering degree due to his background in Tamil medium education.
He developed a passion for chip programming after attending an embedded systems training.
Madhan started his first company while still in college, demonstrating his entrepreneurial spirit.
He faced rejection during a campus interview due to his poor communication skills.
The HR manager encouraged Madhan to improve his communication skills and offered him a job after he did so.
Madhan Srinivasan pursued higher education, earning an MTech and PhD in cloud and analytics, mentored by Dr. K. Sarui.
He also completed a management program in Kolkata to gain business and management knowledge.

Madhan started two companies during his college years, but felt limited by their regional scope and sought to build global companies.
He joined Infosys for 4.5 years, where he built India's first private cloud with 22 interns and received recognition for his work, including the Infosys Cloud Tech Guru award.
His LinkedIn profile was among the top 10% most viewed in India, and he was recognized as a top 100 scientist by IBC Cambridge.
He accepted a job offer in Singapore and worked for GSTF, a niche consulting firm, for over 8 years.
He was promoted to Assistant Director and played a key role in expanding the company's business to the Philippines, Oman, and Jordan.
He introduced technologies like AI, IoT, and big data to Singapore for the first time during his tenure at GSTF.
He joined Accenture in 2015 and created a new business unit called Cloud Analytics or Cloud EII.
This unit developed over 50 products, serving hundreds of Accenture customers and generating over $100 million in annual revenue savings.
He holds over 100 patents related to these products and led the patent effort for Accenture in India.
He filed his first patent on April 14, 2017, and within a year, had filed 14 patents in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and India.
Madhan Srinivasan holds 104 patents, with 65 granted, and received recognition from Accenture for his innovation and patent efforts, including the prestigious "Accenture Prolific Inventor" award.

Despite a successful career at Accenture, Madhan felt a calling to empower humanity through innovation and technology, leading him to start three companies: WIS work, H learn, and DNA I world.
WIS work focuses on developing futuristic innovation products using human-centered AI to solve complex human problems.
H learn aims to revolutionize education by integrating cognitive pedagogy with metaverse and eii technologies.
DNA I world combines genomics and AI to address human health issues, starting with cancer.

Madhan Srinivasan believes in the power of education and its role in achieving success.
He emphasizes the importance of impact and scalability in his approach to business.
Madhan emphasizes the importance of embracing failure and bouncing back, using his "FBQ principle" to remind himself that failing is not a sin, but not bouncing back is.
He believes that failures are stepping stones to success and encourages everyone to celebrate each other's failures and work together to empower humanity.