Sahyadri, a Diversity Champion Institution after signing MoU with Aspire For Her, a Social start-up

Dept. of Business Administration-MBA signed a MoU with Aspire For Her, a social start-up powered by a set of women leaders - mentors and role models, who are determined to ensure that girls in college will take up great careers and more importantly, not drop out. They provide career resources in the form of learning opportunities (career-specific), career previews, blogs, webinars, live sessions, a supportive peer community and of course, a winning mindset. All of this is free of cost to its members.
Dr. Vishal Samartha, Director-MBA Program while signing the MoU was delighted to mention that - As an outcome of this MoU, students will get access to a plethora of learning resources at your fingertips, free of any charges. Students can develop their skill-set by learning from industry professionals, get the chance to be certified, and advance their career. Students taking up these courses would also add weightage to the institute in blended education, Outcome Based Learning, accreditations and rankings.
Aspire For Her was launched on March 8, 2020 (Women’s Day) with the mission to motivate young college women (18-25) to enter and persevere in the workforce.

Placement and Training

Webinar on Career Transitioning by IBM

IBM is hosting a Webinar on "Career Transitioning". The webinar is scheduled for 29th July at 04.00 PM. IBM values possibility, putting potential above everything so that one's career would be limitless as their goal!
Registrations are now open, register below to save your spot.
Link: https://app.brazenconnect.com/a/IBM_Campus/e/6xZry

Recruited by Capgemini

Three of the Sahyadri students have been recruited by Capgemini for the role of Analyst in the recently held Virtual Recruitment Drive.

SINCHANA DEVA	SHIVANI S PAI	VARNA G SHETTY
Computer Science & Engineering	Electronics & Communication Engineering	Information Science & Engineering

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Day Thirty Four of CET Crash Course for CET Aspirants

This space gives a glimpse of the Day-Wise information related to CET Crash Course organized for CET Aspirants at 10:00 am to 1:00 pm every day.
Subject: Physics
Topic: Motion in plane
Participant Count: 1,123

Successful Engineering Entrepreneurs and their life stories

Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal
Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal both coincidentally were students of computer science engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. They are Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneurs and founders of Flipkart. In October 2007, Bansal and his co-founder, Binny Bansal, started an online bookstore, Flipkart, with an initial capital of ₹400,000 (US$5,600). They first started operating out of an apartment in Koramangala, in Bangalore, India. Within six months the start-up was operationally profitable and by the end of the financial year of 2009, Flipkart had managed to sell books worth 40 million rupees. With new partners and more investment, Flipkart was ready to dive into the electronics category. So, they started selling mobiles in 2010. By 2012, Flipkart had already become a unicorn. It was probably the second unicorn in India after InMobi. n 2018, Sachin and Binny’s decade-long journey at Flipkart ended after Walmart acquired Flipkart for $16 billion and valuing the company at over $20 billion. Their Net worth is 120 crores USD
Pranay Chulet
Pranay Chulet is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Quikr since January 2008. Pranay graduated from IIM Calcutta with a Gold Medal in 1996 and earned a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi prior to that. Pranay grew up in India but right after his education, he moved to New York to join Mitchell Madison Group, a strategy consulting firm that advised clients in media and finance industries. Two years in the country, Pranay launched a start-up which he later merged with Walker Digital, Priceline’s incubator. The start-up focused on helping small businesses convert online leads into paying customers. Pranay's work at Walker Digital earned him a US patent in the area of matchmaking between buyers and sellers. His net worth is $150 MILLION.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and Chief executive officer of financial technology company Paytm. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and communication engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University). He did his schooling from a Hindi medium school in Harduaganj, a small town near Aligarh. He was ranked as India's youngest billionaire in 2017 by Forbes with a net worth of $1.3 billion. He has been featured in Time Magazines World's 100 Most Influential People 2017 List. While in college, he started the website indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for $1 million. He started One97 Communications which offered mobile content including news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched by Vijay Shaekhar Sharma in 2010. His net worth is 230 crores USD.
Phanindra Reddy Sama
Phanindra Sama is a co-founder and CEO of RedBus, India’s first online bus ticket booking service. He got his place at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani where he studied Electrical and electronics engineering. It started in 2005, and today Redbus is the largest online bus ticketing company and network of bus operators in India. He is one of the founding patrons of the Kakatiya Sandbox in Nizamabad that helps locals work on solutions to pressing issues. Telangana has appointed Phanindra as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) for the State. He will head the State's Innovation Cell, which focuses on enhancing the start-up ecosystem by developing co-working spaces and incubators across the State. He was recently selected by Endeavor as a high-impact entrepreneur. His net worth is around $110 million, which is approximately Rs 590-650 Crore in Indian currency.
Bhavish Aggarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder of Ola Cabs. He completed a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008. He started his career with Microsoft Research India as a Research Intern and later got reinstated as an Assistant Researcher. In January 2011 he co-founded Ola Cabs with Ankit Bhati in Bengaluru. Ola Cabs has become the largest network of personal transportation options within India and has emerged as the most popular choice for many consumers in 22 Indian cities. In May 2020, Ola Cabs announced a huge layoff of around 500 employees in a move to survive the economic repercussions of COVID-19. It had suffered an overwhelming loss of revenue by about 95%. his net worth is around $ 475 Million

Quote for the day

No one is perfect - that’s why pencils have erasers.
-Wolfgang Riebe