The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience Episode 71: Part-1: Indian Hustle & Competition, Building Early Confidence, State of FAAMGs, Brilliance & Future of Bitcoin, Power of a Free Mind w/Prasanna Sankar
About Prasanna Sankar: Few possess a rare combination of exceptional talent, entrepreneurial vision, and a relentless drive to push boundaries. My next guest on The One Percent Project, Prasanna Sankar, the co-founder of Rippling, is undoubtedly one such individual. In 2010, Prasanna co-founded Likealittle, a college campus social network that experienced an incredible surge, skyrocketing from 0 to 20 million page views in six weeks. Prasanna's coding prowess has earned him international recognition. Furthermore, during his college years, Prasanna held the esteemed rank-one position at TopCoder, solidifying his status as a true coding prodigy. In part one of this two-part series, listen in to learn about Prasanna's journey from TOPCoder to Microsoft, strategies for building and optimising for pace and efficiency, views on the future of crypto, the invaluable lessons learned along the way that help him identify the next big thing and much more Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to it and sign up for The One Percent Project's "Think" newsletter at onepercent.live for curated content that adds value to your professional and personal development. Key Take Aways & Transcript: https://bit.ly/TOP_Prasanna Follow & Subscribe: WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/TOP_WA2 YouTube: https://bit.ly/TOP_Youtube LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/TOP_LinkedIn Twitter: https://bit.ly/TOP_Twitter1 Instagram: https://bit.ly/TOP_Insta In this conversation, he talks about: 00:00 Intro
02:03 Growing up in India.
05:00 The role of confidence in early life.
08:15 The balance between pace & efficiency.
16:05 Meta, Microsoft and Google
20:22 Future & Brilliance of Bitcoin.
27:36 The power of having a free mind.