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Boy-CEO wants to be like Gates
BANGALORE: Suhas Gopinath, youngest CEO in the world, manages an IT firm, Globals Inc.
Now, at 17, Suhas is the youngest CEO in the world, managing an IT firm, Globals Inc, along with three other friends. The 60-member team consists mostly of students, aged 17 to 22, divided between Bangalore and San Jose.
In fact, his age has gone against Suhas.
Recently, when his company was offered a large outsourcing contract for Singapore and Hong Kong by the Indian arm of US-based Smith & Gale, the law did not allow him to sign it.
How did it all start? "I used to surf and read up a lot on Microsoft and Dell. Bill Gates really impressed me," says the boy-CEO. Soon, he was hooked onto the Net: after school, it was straight to a cyber parlour.
One day in August, 2000, Suhas, studying in Class X at the Air Force School in Hebbal, was surfing the Net at a cyber cafe. He happened to hit a source code of MSN. That prompted him to learn more about HTML to design and launch his own website under the address of a US-based company, Network Solutions.
"I kept updating my website, posting interesting things on it. This impressed Network Solutions and they invited me to attend a seminar on Web designing and Web developing," he says. Here, he was certified as the youngest Web designer/developer in the world.
"It was pretty tough. My mom and uncle scolded me for not taking my education seriously. But gradually, dad started encouraging me and even bought me a computer and Net connection. In fact, that was my first investment in the company," he says.
After completing Class XII from Vidhya Mandir in Malleswaram, he has now applied for a two-year course in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. "But education alone will not make a good professional," he says.
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