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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.

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.

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.

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

Timestamps 

• Current state challenges in the start-up sector - 5:00
• Short-termism vs Long termism - 10:47
• Skills to acquire in the ever-changing business environment - 16:57
• Power of 3 - 20:13
• What makes businesses success or failure - 30:06
• **New Segment ** Making it Stick - 34:35

Quotes

• Every business has a responsibility to ensure a sustained path to profitability
• Every slowdown has resulted in better technology solutions
• Hard things take time, stay persistent
• The only thing you owe to yourself is to be the best version of yourself

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