RAMESH HARIDAS: DEVELOPING A 140-CRORE E-COMMERCE PROGRAMME
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The software programme developed by PrivacyBank.com, the company started by Ramesh Haridas, was acquired by Infospace for US$ 30 million (140 crore rupees). 26-year-old Ramesh later became the youngest Vice President of the $500 crore Infospace before branching out to become an entrepreneur on his own in San Francisco.
Ramesh, who did his BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, developed the programme to ease the tedium of customers in
e-commerce. With this ‘Autofill’ programme, the customers could fill
up their personal details with a single click of the mouse instead of
entering them every time they sought a service on the Net.
Once
he had the idea of the programme, he assembled the team required for its
development and the capital for the venture.
The strenuous work put in by them had resulted in the software.
Ramesh
who was born at Kampiyam Vilappil, Cherukunnu, Kannur, did his schooling at the Kendriya Vidyalayas of Bangalore, Delhi and
Thiruvananthapuram thanks to the frequent transfers of his father, Wing
Commandor (Retd.), P.S.Haridas. Even
as a student of computer science, he had been associated with the famous
National Center for Super Computing Application (NCSA) and Microsoft.
He
sponsored an All
India Business Plan competition in association with the Rotary Club of
Calicut Mid-Town , IIM Kozhikode and REC Calicut.
The
secret of my success is the ability to develop innate talent. Hard work and perseverance contributed to that effort, he
says.
Courtesy: Mathrubhumi,
October 22, 2000 and March 15, 2002
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