“Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) was an
Indian engineer and businessman, best known as the founder of
Amul (which stands for Anand Milk Union Ltd), a dairy-food
company.” This is what the But for entrepreneurs and startups,
this man’s life has more to offer. Its a life lived for making a
difference, creating something much larger than one would have
thought possible and not settling for mere “meeting
expectations”. Here’s a few things that struck us. He didn’t
enjoy drinking milk, but sold it to all of us! Against all the
regular gyaan of using your product/build on personal itch, the
key learning is that he was an entrepreneur willing to solve the
bigger challenge of the society. If you ask what was his core
contribution was, well he engineered the system. He architected
a platform that enabled people to build/sell on top of it.
Actually, Kurien was the first to produce milk powder from
buffalo milk at a time the rest of the world manufactured powder
solely from cow’s milk. [via] A prac