E75 - M Srinivas Rao - Startup Nation

<p>MAHANKALI SRINIVAS RAO (MSR) is the Chief Executive Officer of T-Hub, and leads its mission of driving results and collaboration for entrepreneurs’ success. An accomplished serial entrepreneur, MSR has built and scaled businesses across geographies over his 35-year stint in the IT industry.</p><p>Before T-Hub, MSR served as Chief Executive Officer of GAME (Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship), a social impact entity, where he was responsible for the implementation of the organization’s programs and expansion plans in its mission to catalyze 10 million mass entrepreneurs by 2030.</p><p>Earlier, he co-founded Aujas in 2008, with seed funding from IDG Ventures, with a vision to help organizations manage risk and enhance information value through innovation and excellence. He drove the Aujas exit to NSEIT, a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange. MSR was part of the promoter team at Network Solutions (Netsol) which he helped scale from an early-stage entity to being among India’s top 3 Network Integration entities before its acquisition by IBM in October 2005.</p><p>At the start of his career, MSR also worked at Sonata, Computer Vision Labs, and Microland. MSR is a native of Telangana and currently lives in Hyderabad. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from OU College of Engineering. He is a bibliophile, a cricket fan</p><p>Timestamps </p><ul><li>Current state challenges in the start-up sector - 5:00</li><li>Short-termism vs Long termism - 10:47</li><li>Skills to acquire in the ever-changing business environment - 16:57</li><li>Power of 3 - 20:13</li><li>What makes businesses success or failure - 30:06</li><li><b>**New Segment ** Making it Stick </b>- 34:35</li></ul><p>Quotes</p><ul><li>Every business has a responsibility to ensure a sustained path to profitability</li><li>Every slowdown has resulted in better technology solutions</li><li>Hard things take time, stay persistent</li><li>The only thing