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Vishwajeet Vishnu’s journey isn’t built on privilege, pedigree, or perfect timing. It’s built on persistence.

Forced to drop out of college after 12th grade due to financial hardship, Vishwajeet entered the workforce early and educated himself the hard way through books, workshops, lived experience, and relentless curiosity. Over the years, he read hundreds of books and sought mentors to avoid mistakes he couldn’t afford to make.

Before finding his true calling, he tried and failed at 7 to 8 different businesses: call centers, restaurants, cab services, coaching ventures, and more. Each failure looked like a dead end at the time. In hindsight, they became his training ground.

His breakthrough came accidentally when he entered the hearing-care industry. What started as exposure through a family connection turned into a life mission after he witnessed, firsthand, how restoring hearing transformed lives. For the first time, entrepreneurship wasn’t about survival or money—it was about impact.

Fifteen turbulent years later, Vishwajeet leads a multi-country hearing-care organization, operates with systems instead of chaos, spends most of his time on strategy rather than firefighting, and has even fulfilled a lifelong dream—attending his first-ever classroom lecture at Harvard Business School.

His story isn’t extraordinary because he’s exceptional. It’s extraordinary because he isn’t.

Here are the Top 10 Takeaways from the conversation:

1. You don’t need a perfect start—just a refusal to quit
   Most people don’t fail; they stop too early.
2. Failure is data, not identity
   Every failed business sharpened his judgment for the next one.
3. Self-education compounds
   Books became his substitute for formal education—and a powerful one.
4. Mentors collapse timelines
   Guidance can save you years of trial and error.
5. Opportunity favors the persistent
   He didn’t “find” the right business—he stayed long enough to grow into it.
6. Purpose beats profit in the long run
   Impact created the staying power money never could.
7. Integrity is not optional—it’s strategic
   Trust built in good times is what rescues you in bad ones.
8. Culture is a reflection of the founder’s behavior
   Teams don’t follow values on walls; they follow actions.
9. Systems buy freedom
   Moving from chaos to structure shifted him from operator to leader.
10. If you feel behind, you’re not
    Focus + perseverance beats speed + privilege every time.

Books:

• Rich Dad Poor Dad 
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built 
• Romancing the Balance Sheet