FARRHAD ACIDWALLA CEO- ROCKSTAH MEDIA
By By V.B.SUJITH V.B.SUJITH 11ststMBA-C MBA-C
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”
Glossary Intro First Step As an Entrepreneur Rockstah media Services Clients as if now Beyond The expectations- TEDx Achievements and Honours Conclusion References
Intro Born on November 16,1993
in Pune. Brought up in Mumbai. Schooling in Bombay Scottish school,Mahim Present doing B.Com in H.R.College of commerce and economics.
First Step At the age of 12. Initial investment of $10 for buy his first domain name. Started a website for aviation and aero- modeling and received
his first cheque at the age of 13. Sold it for $1,200 far more than his initial investment.
As an Entrepreneur No satisfaction with the website. Entered into many ventures and internet businesses. Experience motivated him in each step and made him start his
own company. Started in 2009,the company is named as Rockstah media.
Rockstah Media International
award winning company focusing on their
services. Initial investment for the company is $400. Main slogan of the company is “Creating Awesomeness”
HOMEPAGE
Services Web Development Marketing Branding Events and Celebrity Management
Clients and Clinteles Tata steel,SAP,U20 etc.,
Government clients includes Power Grid Corporation of India
Limited,Embassy of India in Tokyo, Kerala(God’s own country),Rajasthan(Incredible state of India) etc.,
Clienteles include Pa Shree recipients, National Award winners,
corporates, media personalities and Public Sector Units.
Beyond the expectations-TEDx TED-Technology, Entertainment, Design
TED PRIZE TED.COM TEDMED TEDX TEDWOMEN Selected as TEDx speaker. x = Independently organized TED Event.
Recently spoke at IIT Kharagpur in Global Entrepreneurship suumit,2014 Apart from TED he judged many competitions.
Featured In Gave his first live interview in CNN-Young Entrepreneur to Watch at the age
of 17. Also featured in CNN- IBN,LiveMint, MSN.com, Yahoo! Finance, The
Economic Times and The Times of India, Hindustan Times to name a few. Also featured in books like The Young Entrepreneur,
Better Than a Lemonade Stand, The Gifted Teen Survival Guide.
Achievements and Honours In 2009, MidDay featured him 45th on the list of India's top Twitter s. In 2011, CNN Money featured Farrhad 5th on the list of young entrepreneurs
to watch. In 2013, he was featured 6th on Yahoo! Lifestyle & Mens XP as one of the ”Top 10 Best Dressed Male Entrepreneurs In India”. The list also featured Shahrukh Khan and Vijay Mallya. In 2014, Farrhad was the youngest guest lecturer at IIT Kharagpur's annual entrepreneurship summit. Recently, The Telegraph(UK) featured Farrhad second on the list of “25 internet success stories aged 25 and under”.
Conclusion
“Taking initiative is the most important step, so long as it is backed by hard work and dedication” -Farrhad Acidwalla
References
https://www.farrhad.com/ http://www.rockstahmedia.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrhad_Acidwalla