Devashish Malakar

Background

About Devashish Malakar

I aim to guide 1M entrepreneurs to thrive. A Critical Thinker. A Quick Learner. Intolerant to idiotism. Very blunt sometimes. I believe in people. I love to delegate. Working towards robust execution. I identify and see opportunities. Read books on Business, Philosophy, Meditation, Self-help, Psychology. Two hundred so far and still counting. My thoughts are heavily inspired by Vipassana teacher SN Goenka. I relate to his teachings. Mistakes throughout this life have defined my journey. The insight gained, lessons learned, exposures, and experiences have been my teacher. My perseverance has kept me going. I understand entrepreneurship and people. Impacts that I have been able to create. Trained and employed over happy engineers in top tech companies like Wipro. Rolled out and completed over 50 IT infrastructure & development projects. Projects for BFSI / Retail; PSUs—Project Planning, Hiring, Project management. Created Edtech product Learnabcxyz for entry-level tech grads on remote learning in 2014, had to close it within 2 years due to wrong identification of audience and wrong product-market fit. Mentored UK based Healthtech, SAAS product companies. Edutech, B2B services of 4+ startups in Ideation to product and product to market. Rolled out Aadhar project enrolment camps in the Eastern part of India, i.e, Bihar/Jharkhand/WB/Orissa generated over 1.5 cr UIDs. Running “Center of Excellence” with Govt of Kerala at Trivandrum to train and make freshers employable, made 500+ tribal freshers employed. Co-Founded a Women fashion (Apparel) business on “rural cooperative manufacturing model.” Building a social commerce engine for the same business to convert unemployed youth to social entrepreneur. Domain and industry worked in: IT Services - Banking/ Govt / IT–Product / Consulting / Energy / Finance / FMCG / Fashion / E.com / Fitness / Medical / Education / Aviation, Marketing & Sales -Resource management