Young
Turks features thirteen of the most inspiring and brilliant tech
entrepreneurs of our age. It includes interviews with first-generation
entrepreneurs like Naveen Tewari of inmobi, Sachin Bansal and Binny
Bansal of Flipkart, Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal of Snapdeal, V. S. S.
Mani of Just Dial and Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony. Based on
the iconic TV show Young Turks, the book reveals how these individuals
built multi-million dollar businesses and challenged the established
tech giants of the world. It celebrates disruption and gives you the
inside story of how these successful businesses revolutionized in areas
of innovation, scale and sustainability of venture.
With
razor-sharp insights into these agile, forward-looking startups, this
inspirational book is a must-have for every budding entrepreneur.
Praise
- Shereen Bhan is one Indias most recognizable faces in TV journalism
- Young Turks is Indias longest running business show and has had hundreds of entrepreneurs interviewed
- The
enthusiasm, daring, sacrifice, passion, hard work and dilemmas paving
the entrepreneurial journey of promising entrepreneurs have been well
portrayed by Shereen Bhan, Indias pre-eminent business TV anchor and
Syna Dehnugara. This book will raise the confidence of entrepreneurs to
fulfill the dreams of our founding fathers. It is a must read for every
aspiring entrepreneur. - N. R. Narayana Murthy, founder, Infosys
- There
is a saying, may you live in interesting times 157, all entrepreneurs
live in interesting times. They are at the centre of the process of
creative destruction 157. Every day thousands of entrepreneurs go to
work hoping to create the company of the future. CNBC - TV18s program
Young Turks has brought us face-to-face with exciting entrepreneurs for
the last 13 years and inspired many youngsters to emulate them. I am
happy to see CNBC TV18 releasing a book that features some the best
material of the TV series. It will be a handy reference to understand
the motivation and the method of some of the best entrepreneurs of
India. I wish the team of Young Turks and CNBC TV18 the very best for
the success of the book. - N. Chandrasekeran, CEO, TCS
- With more
than 90% failure rate, building a start-up is perhaps one of the
hardest and riskiest jobs in the world and yet there are enough success
stories out there that feed into the charisma and magic of building a
business from scratch. Young Turks is that rare book that provides us a
glimpse into many such inspiring real-world, evidence-based insights,
best practices and lessons learned by others who have successfully taken
this journey. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to every aspiring
entrepreneur or even a hardened corporate chieftain as a north star for
their entrepreneurial aspirations. - Vineet Nayar, former CEO, HCL
technologies and founder, sampark foundation
- I am delighted to
learn that the Young Turks series produced and anchored by Shereen will
now be published as a book. Celebrating at it does the indomitable
spirit of Indias young entrepreneurs, this popular series has no doubt
inspired many to follow their dreams and shape a new destiny for our
country. It is immensely heartening to see this young, confident
generation taking to entrepreneurship on the strength of their
conviction, creative abilities, innovative capacity and boundless
enthusiasm. They indeed have the potential to redefine the nations
future by creating the competitive Indian enterprises of tomorrow. I
would like to specially congratulate Shereen for this outstanding
programme and for her tireless efforts in capturing the rich repertoire
of experiences and efforts, memorable achievements and challenges of our
young torchbearers of the future. Commendable work indeed, Shereen and
heres wishing you many more successes in the future. - Y. C. Deveshwar,
chairman ITC limited.
- I love these revealing and beautifully
told stories as they are powerful learning tools for Indias aspiring
entrepreneurs. The open and honest way these CEOs talk about their
mistakes and how they pivoted when their backs were up against the wall
is captivating. I have guest hosted Young Turks in Delhi and Im a
long-time admirer of Sheerens talent and passion to inspire Indias
future business leaders. - John Sculley, former CEO, Apple.
About the Author
Shereen Bhan
is the managing editor of CNBC - TV18. She is the anchor-editor of
Young Turks, one of Indias longest running shows on entrepreneurs that
has successfully built a niche in business news programming. She has
been producing and anchoring flagship news shows like India business
hour and whats hot for over a decade. She is also the host of overdrive,
which has won the new television award for best auto show for three
consecutive years.
Shereen has been the recipient of the best
business talk show award at the news television awards for two years
consecutively. She also won the FICCI woman of the year award for her
contribution to the media in 2005 and was named a young global leader by
the world economic forum.
Syna DehnugaraSyna
Dehnugara is a journalist and television producer based in Delhi.
Associated with business news channels for eight years now, her area of
work includes interpreting the impact of economic and social policies on
business and in turn, the impact on livelihood, education, healthcare
and social progress. Her other big focus has been co-producing Young
Turks, Indias longest running show on entrepreneurship on CNBC - TV18.
The show keeps her optimistic and inspired.
Shes been planning a
big year of travel for years now and hopes to make 2015 that year with
her husband and very own Young Turk in tow.
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