The Addiction of doing things: Devesh Kumar at TEDxTirupati

At twenty-two, turning down job offers from some of the world's largest corporations needs confidence. Devesh Kumar is fast being recognized for that. Recently graduated from BIT Mesra, he has turned down lucrative offers from Amazon, Microsoft and a fast-growing technology start-up Mu Sigma, to instead start his own venture.

He is the co-founder and developer at WhiteShark -- one of the 11 companies to be incubated at Microsoft Accelerator (1st Batch). Earlier at the age of 19, he started ViDei, which worked in the field of technical education for 3 successful years.

Devesh has also won Microsoft Imagine Cup (India) -- World's Biggest Technology competition (400,000 students 100+ countries) with his innovative ideas to fight Dyslexia, which he intends to give away to the world for free. He is also the winner of NASSCOM Social Innovation Honors and one of the finalist of UNICEF Awards.

He has also been an active volunteer for National Aids Control Organization for 6 years and AID India, Patna for 3 years. This has really helped him connect with the issues India faces and he hopes to address them with the help of technology, one day.

In his free time he has created 4 short movies -- Koshish (on Dowry), Bas Ek Sawaal (on Child Exploitation), Seven (on Suicides) and Koshish 2 (on AIDS).

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