CAMPUS TO CEO JOURNEY OF Mr.Sandip Kumar Kundu Founder & CEO at Aileen Curve

1)?Story of the CEO from Student to being?a CEO ( any story that you want to share with us, while your journey from Campus to CEO)?:-

Students are like wet clay, you can mould them in any shape. No wonder there was a tide of?prelapsarian charm of exhilarating opportunities where you get an opportunity to evolve yourself in hard-bitten situations. During my tenure in?B school, the most hair-raising?learning was?compounding theory(Eight wonders of the world) of Warren Buffett and how he planned it?well beforehand. I wanted an entrepreneurship model which was both philanthropic and had commercial?value as well. I came with the idea of Aileen Curve after 15 years of my experience in Investment Banking, Wealth management and mentoring start-ups.

2) Introduction of Company :-

?Aileen Curve is an edutech company started by Sandip Kundu in August?2021 with help of two of his colleagues Mr Prashant Goyal and Mr Indrajit Sikdar. Its objective is to make sure:-?

1. To ensure specially-abled students as well to get tech-based education & jobs.?
2. To help students/professionals get job trained as well?with?formal education?
3. To help do community building of teachers with?students/professionals of different sectors and knowledge sharing between them.?
4. To help professionals do research mentorship and?guidance in different fields.?
5. To help people publish books and research papers(Doctoral, Post-Doctoral) in?different global research online platforms through us.?

a)?When & how did we start??:- The idea came to me in 2021 and that is where in July 2021 I started toying with the idea. With a lot of startups coming up with Edutech as a platform, Aileen Curve had a different socio-commercial model catering?to normal & specially able students / professionals courses like Block chain, Deep Tech courses, K-12 courses which includes community building as well.??

b) What do we do?

Goals :-?To help build online edutech technology infrastructure for specially able students/professionals

2) To help bringing teachers on board for courses

3) Tie up with companies for job-oriented training

4) Tie up with coaching?institutes/research platforms for pedagogy?

Mission :-?To help building edutech platform for special -abled?

& needy?professionals, students & teachers?so as to create value for our investors?

Vision :-?To be in top 3 edutech platforms of the world?

c) Team size current? Currently 8 people in the team as the product is in MVP stage and site will be operational by November.

d) Expansion plan??To open to global networks to bring the likes of IITs, IIMs,Harvard, MIT in one amazing space helping the special and the needy as well.

?c) Addition information of company

?Revenue model in to three types:-?

1) Social

2) Commercial

3) Research & Publication??

3)?Business challenges successfully overcome :-

The biggest challenge was getting teachers for special students on board. We are in touch with various government organisations and NGOs who will be helping us to resolve the problem. Slowly and steadily, we are resolving it.Through your medium we would request to be in touch with me on?[email protected]?if you have any skill to share with us.

4) An inspiring life Changing Story :-?

My organisation is actually named after my 4 year old daughter “Aileen”. We have adopted her when she was just 1 year of age. Many in her age suffered from disabilities due to lack of proper care and malnutrition. My Kid overcome these?issues and now she is a glowing example of her success. She inspired me to reach more and help develop something unique which will help people grow and also commercialise it with education and research.

Tata’s is an example as it's growing because of empathy towards people working for them.

5) Message for the youths :-

The youth today is the future tomorrow.?They are exposed well to many things?today compared to our times. They hear a lot of noises. They need to filter these noises to find the right information.