Discussion With Director (DWD) is a series of freewheeling discussions with corporate honchos and eminent personalities, who have taken an unconventional path and created success stories. It is an initiative of IIMB’s Director, Dr. Sushil Vachani, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell to give students an opportunity to interact with them in an informal setting and try to understand and learn what it takes to reach that level. DWD’s first session was held on 23rd September, 2014 with Mr. S. D. Shibulal– the

Who thought that the dissent from the big brother attitude of the Soviet would create an app that would ultimately become a $19 billion golden goose? WhatsApp is one of the few majors in the tech industry that does not collect user data directly from its chats. Now this is the story of Jan Koum or should we say WhatsApp. So the story begins with Jan Koum (from here on we shall refer him to as JK) stuck in Kiev erstwhile USSR with

Entrepreneur@IIMB Name : SOURAV DAS Start-up Name : SuryOn Interviewer : What is SuryOn? Sourav : SuryOn is a social for-profit energy venture focused on developing affordable, sustainable and clean solutions to the energy needs of rural India. The team of SuryOn consisting of graduates and academicians of IIT Kharagpur and supported by XLRI, has developed its first product, SuryOn Apollo, a solar mobile phone charger exclusively meant for rural India. It comes with one year warranty and is suitably priced at INR 450. I: How did you