Hari Vasudevan is the founder and CEO of Think Power Solutions. Think Power Solutions is a construction oversight, PMO and information technology company focusing on the power, energy and critical infrastructure industries. In his role of CEO, Hari advances and maintains key Utility client relationships and ensures client satisfaction.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Hari’s Grandfather
- Mark Cuban
- Alex Ferguson
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I was lucky to have a wife who was working with full benefits that kind of took care of practical things like health insurance and mortgage payments… I was very lucky to get a paying client very early on. The challenge I faced was to hire the right people to meet the trust that the early paying clients placed on us. Of course, there will always be players who will never be happy to see newcomers so they try to do everything possible to see us fail”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life Book by Bo Peabody
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company Book by Robert Iger
- Eastern philosopher books
Favourite Quote:
“Stay hungry, stay foolish and stay in the moment”
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find something that you are passionate about, something that energises you on the worst of days and something that you can energise others with your vision and mission. On the worst of days, you have got to find that. The essence of a start-up is about decision-making under ambiguity. So, hire people who make decisions under ambiguous circumstances. That’s important. The third thing I would say is don’t chase money. Chase opportunities to learn and grow. Chase the opportunities to network with people…”…[Listen for More]
More About Hari Vasudevan:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Theodore Roosevelt “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Hari Vasudevan:
- “I tried to learn a bit from everybody I meet every single day… I tried to learn a little bit from the success or failure of teams or people I follow”
- “I have no regrets about where we are. We are very, very happy to be where we are. Having said that you obviously live and learn and I would definitely do quite a few things differently in my next business. I would probably set up the company a little bit differently in terms of the company structure. We obviously went with some recommendations from attorneys and it turns out there is a better way to set up the company to bring on partners later on in the company’s evolution and things like that”
- “the secret to success…would be to not be afraid of failure”
- “try again, fail again, fail better”
- “I try to take calculated risks that I can recover from”
- “you can’t be afraid of failure; you got to take risks and make things happen”
- “you should be smart enough to know that you are getting lucky as an entrepreneur and get out of the way of smart people and let them thrive and let them make the company thrive”
- “seek to perform your duty but not cling to the fruits of your duty”
- “you’ve got to be hungry to stick through the time. You’ve got to stay foolish meaning you’ve got to learn every single day from people that you meet every single day, people that you speak to every single day, things you read, things you watch and things like that. Most importantly stay in the moment. Keep your mind clutter free. That’s what helps you make good decisions”
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