Amit Ranjan is an exemplary figure in the technology entrepreneurship sphere, best known for co-founding SlideShare in 2006. At a time when the social web was in its infancy—with novel platforms like YouTube emerging and MySpace dominating the scene—Amit and his team saw an opportunity. They seized it by creating a space dedicated to professional content, setting the stage for what would become a widely-used resource for professionals around the globe.

As one of the three visionaries who launched the platform during a transformative era for online networking, Amit played a pivotal role in its acquisition by LinkedIn.

He later significantly contributed to India's digitization under a groundbreaking government initiative.

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Key Quotes

• "So quick learning and self-learning are two traits that, in my opinion, really come to your rescue. They would really help you if you are kind of doing a startup or even working at a startup because a lot of the situations that you're going to face, whether it is the idea, the product, the execution of that product and idea, then coming onto the business side, how do you put together a sales team, how do you put together a marketing team, how do you take it to the market, how do you sell it to customers?"— Amit Ranjan [00:16:34]
• "What made you successful in the past isn't what will make you succeed in the future, is that the solutions of yesterday, really, while you leverage them, you learn and you kind of grow fast, but they are not going to help you tomorrow."— Amit Ranjan [00:21:06]

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