#91 - Bangalore to Boston - A 23 year old Founder tells the story w/ Nikin Tharan

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07-02-2021 • 1 hr 29 mins

Nikin Tharan believes in using technology and leveraging existing resources to challenge the status quo and impact lives. He  is currently the CEO and co-founder of Medsix, a medical device startup based in Boston.

Growing up in India, Nikin discovered he had a talent for electronics and started working at a lab affiliated with the Border Security Force at 9 y/o and secured a scholarship to study university in the US at 16 y/o. After graduating, he worked at a startup building novel radiation detectors backed by NASA before founding Medsix.

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro
1:18 Embracing risk as an Entrepreneur
8:06 Who is Nikin Tharan
20:01 The World as an "Embedded system"
32:02 Nikin's childhood as an 'Anomaly'
48:00 Flaws of the Indian education system
51:45 Ending up in Northeastern University, Boston
57:31 The American University Experience
1:03:32 How MEDSIX came into being
1:10:44 What is a Hackathon and how does it work
1:14:45 What happens at MEDSIX?
1:24:05 Where is Nikin headed?

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Instagram: @ntharan

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