Thursday 30 April 2020

The News Castle: Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI

The News Castle: Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI: Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI Helping Digital Marketing Community from Engineer.AI

At 33, Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator exemplar, a multi venture maverick, and a strong advocate of enterprises that create social impact, benefiting the world at large.

With SD Squared, Sachin Duggal leads Product Innovation, Design & Strategy, while overseeing core executive functions & investments. A team of over 150 come around “Sach” with engineers from tier I engineering institutions and fortune 100 companies, over the last 3 years Sachin Dev Duggal has steered a very successful venture in SD Squared with over 300 percent year on year growth. In the last few months, his sharp focus has been in next generation path breaking technologies working on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Advanced Virtual/Mixed Reality Technologies and can often been seen working with the SD Squared Research & Experience center on the Microsoft HoloLens or HTC Vive. His long term future thinking helps in the company’s innovation to stay ahead of the race and take both short term bets as well as moonshots.

Among Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI achievements include being awarded the Youth Leader – NCEC of ASSOCHAM, The MIT TR35 Indian Innovator of the Year, The Price Waterhouse Coopers Leader of Tomorrow, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, The BBC Young Asian achiever of the Year, UNEP Global 500 Youth Award among others.


Tell us about SD Squared professional services, solutions and expertise areas?

SD Squared provides “peace-of-mind-outsourcing, using A.I. , ridiculous brain power & mad love to bring ideas to life; always, timely and beyond expectation”. The entire business model is disrupt on behalf of the consumer the entire outsourcing model from over-pricing, under-delivery and inconceivable opaqueness in how competitive firms deliver.

SD Squared is the trusted partner to several start-ups and enterprise companies providing them mission critical solutions for their customers to ensure that their business is always on and accessible. Be it the start-up ecosystem or enterprise businesses, SD Squared brings customer value through its brands; Engineer.ai for application development, and CloudOps.ai for cloud infrastructure services, billing and managed services...................

Poem By Sanjeev Nanda - Mother Unconditional Love.

Checkout Full video of Sanjeev Nanda Poem.




You gives us
Stepping stones to the stars
Your love is unconditional
Your heart has no bars

I can’t explain, the way I feel
The gratitude inside
For all the days and all the nights
You spent right by my side.

You teach us
To be bold and confident
You picks up us
And wipes away life’s tears

Your love for us
More valuable than silver or gold
You celebrates
Our accomplishments in life

For loving me through the hurt
And pain that’s come my way.
For holding on to me so tight
That I can barely breathe.

For yelling at me when I’m out of place
For telling me the truth.
For forgiving me for what I say
’Cause I know it hurts.

I’m grateful for all these things that you do
So now I say what I feel
At this time and every day
I just want you to know how much I love you Mom

~Sanjeev Nanda

Wednesday 22 April 2020

Check PPT Of Darren Huston on Future of Travel

Darren Huston says that ten years from now, no paper work will be involved in the travel. “You’ll have no passport, no credit cards, no confirmation,” predicts the Amsterdam-based Canadian.

"You just have to have your phone in your pocket, and if you lose it, everything will be in the cloud." Unless someone invites teleportation, however, we'll still have to fly – something Darren Huston doesn't really do.


But for now, this is the only way he can access all the local experiences he craves. "I like the odd taste and taste. I've eaten ants in Nairobi, frogs in Vietnam and a lot of weird things in China - I really enjoy it during travel. "


Check PPT: https://www.edocr.com/v/lma3o7ol/dishadayal09/Darren-Huston-Speaks-On-Future-of-Travel

Darren Huston Speaks On New CEO Appointed By Allegro - PPT

Darren Huston Speaks On New CEO Appointed By Allegro Allegro, a leading online marketplace in Poland introduced the appointment of Francois Nuyts as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Nuyts joins from Amazon where he was responsible for establishing Amazon in Southern Europe, as Vice President & Managing Director of Amazon Spain and Italy. Executive Chairman of Allegro, Darren Huston said: “The CEO transition comes at a good time for the company.


We have a strong leadership team and are very excited about the future, including the strong pipeline of innovation we will deliver to our customers and merchant partners in the coming months. “Francois is an extremely talented individual who understands our marketplace well. I believe he will play an instrumental role in the future development and growth of the business. I would like to thank Przemyslaw for his significant contribution to the company as CEO and wish him every success in his future endeavors. Allegro is now extremely well positioned and has a strong platform for further growth opportunities.”

Checkout Here:
https://www.slideshare.net/DishaDayal/darren-huston-speaks-on-new-ceo-appointed-by-allegro

Checkout Darren Huston PPT on Slideshare

Darren Huston is an alumnus of the UWC Adriatic 1983–1985 visited the college and gave a lecture.

When Darren Huston was talking about his life and career, he was shocked by the fact that his audience consisted of many young travelers from around the world and that all UWC alumni also travel - in fact, UWCers As they do so very widely!



Source: https://www.slideshare.net/DishaDayal/darren-huston-canada-uwc-adriatic

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Darren Huston - Story on Wattpad


Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer

Born: January 3, 1966, Hope, British Columbia

Education: BS in economics, Trent University; MA in Economics, University of British Columbia; MBA, Harvard Business School

Early Marker: Vice president at Starbucks responsible for acquisitions and new product development.


Big Idea: The Microsoft executive stepped up to the top job at Priceline in January 2014 after running the group's main revenue generator, Amsterdam-based Booking.com. Since 2011 he has been tackling the challenges of its main advertising outlet, Google, increasingly competing with it for travel-related bookings, of expanding its hospitality-related services, such as with its acquisition of OpenTable, and of retaining its customers as they migrate from desktop to mobile devices.

Sunday 19 April 2020

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI

Founder & CEO Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.ai – a tech icon globally, Sachin Dev Duggal, the Chief Wizard of Engineer.ai, was recognized with the Serial Entrepreneur of the Year Award at a gala event hosted by Entrepreneur India to recognize the best of Entrepreneurial ecosystem for 2019.

Sachin Duggal bootstrapped his most recent venture, Engineer.ai, into a multi-million dollar business with $60M in revenue in the last 3 years and 180% profitable growth. Engineer.ai offers a 360 degree software service solution to build, run and scale any software development project without technical expertise.


The AI assembly line platform, Builder, enables anyone to build an on-demand, tailor-made software using a library of reusable features and a network of over 75,000 Creators globally–connected by a global software assembly line. This same assembly process reduces time to market, which helps create dreams (using software) faster than ever before. The result is a software development process that’s more efficient, transparent and reliable than ever before. At Web Summit 2018, Engineer.ai announced it closed on Asia and Europe’s biggest Series A funding round of $29.5M–which Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI brought to life.

Friday 17 April 2020

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI


Small and medium businesses (SMBs) keen to move onto the digital economy could be overwhelmed with technology, especially software, which denies them the opportunity to harness its numerous benefits. An Artificial Intelligence-led technology startup is setting up an online marketplace platform where people can place their requirements and receive the desired software application.

Engineer.ai, founded by serial entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal, aims to change the way software applications are built and delivered, especially for SMBs.



Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI says, “SMBs were put-off by the complexity of software applications and many of them outsourced their requirements, but this has not adequately addressed their business needs.”

He feels that many SMBs are using traditional economy technology tools for the digital world thus losing out on efficiency and costs. Moreover, large tech enterprises are not keen on catering to the needs of SMBs as their requirements are small-budget. This is where Engineer.ai comes into play.

Marketplace model

Sachin Duggal describes Engineer.ai is a no-code software development platform where anyone can come with an idea, build it and run the project.

There are few fundamentals on which Engineer.ai has built its business model. The first and foremost is that most of the software in existence has commonly used codes that account for around 60-70 percent, making it reusable. Secondly, there are enough number of software developer teams or dev shops around the world who are keen to work on projects and may not have the opportunity.

Read full story @ https://www.issuewire.com/sachin-dev-duggal-engineer-ai-helping-businesses-to-access-quality-software-1663925802186037

Wednesday 15 April 2020

When The Boy Said "I Love You" - Poem by Darren Huston

When The Boy Said "I Love You"




When the boy said.
"I love you"
I nearly wept the tears which have been filling since the last one left,
Unsure of my feelings I turn away and look to the ground,
Searching,
For something,
To distract myself,
I see the garbage, with the used wrappers from our affairs,
Wondering, maybe that's why,
Because why would a boy love me for any other reason but my body?
Because I have been taught to beware those three words,
For those are the words which are spoken when he wants more,
More than your touch,
Or cress,
But your lips,
His, on you hips,
For when the boy said "I love you"
I was confused and concerned,
Because why would he,
Could he,
Love someone like me. 

Tuesday 14 April 2020

Create Store App with Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI in Lockdown

Online delivery platforms have become all important amid the coronavirus crisis as people are unable to visit stores physically. But setting up an online platform is not easy for a mom-and-pop corner shop as it requires knowledge of coding. Now, a software development firm is helping small businesses to easily build apps from pre-packaged templates.

Software company Engineer.ai on Thursday launched The Studio Store which features a set of pre-packaged apps for ecommerce and delivery.

To set up an ecommerce delivery app, any small business now only needs to pick one of the templates available on The Studio Store. There is no hassle of finding a good software developer or spending a lot of money on building an app from scratch

What’s more, Engineer.ai offers free hosting of the app on its servers for three months.

“Businesses need to adapt to survive,” co-founder and CEO Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI says. “Customers now expect to communicate with businesses via digital channels – whether it’s through an app or a website.” Engineer.ai makes it easy and affordable for businesses to create such a digital presence.


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The first apps on Studio Store will be suitable for grocery stores, garment boutiques and florists. Businesses can expect to have a fully functional app in less than eight weeks, Sachin Duggal says. The firm also offers assistance in scaling up the app in line with the growth of the business or customising it for specific needs.

Read full story @ http://www.asianage.com/technology/in-other-news/100420/stores-empty-due-to-lockdown-now-reach-customers-by-creating-an-app-with-builderai-studio-store.html

Friday 10 April 2020

Darren Huston Email - Ceo & Founder @ Blackpines Capital Partner

Darren Huston Details:

Location - Vancouver, BC, Canada

Work - CEO & Founder, BlackPines Capital Partners
Executive Advisor @ Hillhouse Capital
CEO & Founder @ BP Global Advisors, B.V.

Education - 1992 1994 MBA in General Management @ Harvard University
1989 1990 MA in Economics @ University of British Columbia
1985 1989 BSc Honours in Economics @ Trent University
1983 1985 International Baccalaureate @ United World College of the Adriatic

Visit: https://rocketreach.co/darren-huston-email_427743

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.AI Interview

“Engineer.ai empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects”

Building a software application has become a child’s play now. Engineer.ai is one such platform, based on artificial intelligence, which allows people to build software without knowing how to code. The company’s core product, Builder, has hundreds of building blocks of frequently used code which can be cross utilised by different customers.

Since the cost of the program is split across a large number of customers, it becomes possible to offer it at a more reasonable price point. Ramesh Kumar Raja caught up with Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI, Founder and CEO, Engineer.ai, to discuss more about the company, its services and the business model. Excerpts:


Engineer.ai has brought a sort of revolution with Builder, a software/app building platform. How did the idea strike you to come up with this venture?


sachin dev duggal engineer ai


The idea of Engineer.ai took shape in early 2012 after I was burned by a rogue contractor. Frustrated and hearing my friends’ accounts of the same kinds of problems happening globally, I went to work to create a solution to this problem.

Read full interview @ http://newspedialive.over-blog.com/2019/09/sachin-dev-duggal-founder-and-ceo-engineer.ai.html

Thursday 9 April 2020

Love Between The Friends - Poem by Darren Huston

Love Between The Friends



Just before we took that final leap,
From childhood into something else,
We once again called a truce.

As the days and weeks go by,
So few, I find, are what they seemed.
But you, I know,
I wish to keep close to me.

There've been many years and changes,
Yet, somehow we've made it though.
Always friends, again, in the end. 


Tuesday 7 April 2020

Darren Huston Speaks On Future of Travel - Ellecanada


Darren Huston says that ten years from now, no paper work will be involved in the travel. “You’ll have no passport, no credit cards, no confirmation,” predicts the Amsterdam-based Canadian.


Monday 6 April 2020

Poem by Darren Huston — A Truth Of Passing

A TRUTH OF PASSING ~ DARREN HUSTON


Life comes, life goes, this and more we know.
But do we see, why it goes?
Friends stay, friends leave, if only by who’s heave?
True friends they do never leave.
Family is, family was, is there ever a because?
Why must pass what is and was?
Pain it stings, pain it bites, pain it takes away all might.
Such a hopeless, hopeless fight.
What departs, what remains, what does constant effort gain?
What cause is worth more than pain?
Nothing lasts, no things pass, Nothing has such great a mass.
Do not forget, this too shall pass.

Darren Huston Canada, UWC Adriatic 1983 - 85

When Darren Huston was talking about his life and career, he was shocked by the fact that his audience consisted of many young travelers from around the world and that all UWC alumni also travel - in fact, UWCers As they do so very widely!

Alumni are not just the “primary outcome" of UWC. They are also a source of sometimes unexpected ways to support fundraising for scholarships. During that visit Darren Huston gave a memorable lecture to the College students and came up with an idea for a Bookingdotcom.So – Darren Huston thought – how about creating a way for the Alumni to give to the College simply by using Booking.com?

The grant is open-ended and variable and depends on our alumni booking, making students and staff members through bookingdotcom: the higher the booking, the higher the grant!When the grant amount reaches the value of the scholarship, it is allocated to a student as a Bookingdotcom scholarship.

So, when using the services provided by Booking.com, whether for holidays or work-related travel, please remember to use this link and why not ask friends and relatives to use it too? No additional costs are involved and you will be contributing to supporting future generations of young “travellers of the mind”! 


Visit: https://www.uwcad.it/Alumni-Profiles/Darren-Huston

 

Thursday 2 April 2020

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI Career Advice

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI is a London-born serial entrepreneur who has experience of building businesses in the UK, US and India. Currently CEO and founder of Engineer.ai, he has also previously founded companies such as Nivio and Shoto.

Q.What was the most valuable piece of career advice that you received?

A. Just recently, I learned about the realities of rapidly scaling a company. When you go from 10 people to 200 people, you go from having an answer, to having the process to have the answer, to having the people that know the process to having an answer. Now, when you go through that double quick, you have zero time to acclimatise to that shift and that's challenging. Because when you, as the co-founder, know it so well that the process and the answer is all in one split second, it gets frustrating why problems don't get solved in bigger teams as quickly. It is also why young companies work so much faster...because the process and the answer there is the same thing. But to scale up is to grow through this process.



Q. What was the worst piece of business advice that you received?

A. I can think of two actually, and both contradict each other. One was - grow at any cost. The second was - when you're growing, keep cutting costs. I think the truth is that you can do either well if you make a choice. You can either optimise or you can scale. And if you choose to do both, then you'll have to alternate between optimising and scaling and play it by ear.

Q. What advice would you give to someone starting their career in tech?

A. I can give you three candid facts about the tech business that will save a starter a lot of shocks. Firstly, unlike other businesses, tech companies have a very different pace. So, you have to look at each problem with a very different velocity in mind. Secondly, the entry cost is very high. You have to build a prototype, get the MVP ready and then have the final product in order to rope customers in. It's not like a trading business where you can manufacture small batches of shampoo at the back of your garden and sell it on a Facebook page. So, specialise like hell. Thirdly, as you grow, you'll need to hire expertise that will create processes to help solve problems. At some point, and I haven't quite put a number to it yet, to be successful, you will have to stop solving problems yourself and delegate. But having said that, as someone in a leadership position, you are always prepared to look at everything in the macro and then suddenly go down straight to toilet seat detail when time calls.

Read full article @ https://www.idgconnect.com/interviews/1504079/suite-careers-advice-sachin-dev-duggal-builder-ai

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