More about Parasharan Chari
Currently, helping customers reduce their medicine bills. Previously, was shaping careers.
A typical Engineer - MBA with atypical sector choices.
Started with IT Consulting. Gave up in no time, because "ye na ho paayega zindagi bhar".
Then a decade at Endeavor Careers.
An "academician at heart" - was the thing that stayed along for a decade.
Technically, however, started with Business Development, added HR, Operations, IT over the course of a decade.
Endeavor, then in 2008 was an "early stage start up" wherein everyone was doubling, tripling up on other roles. The place was built by all of us with so much heart and student at the center of the ecosystem that even after nearly 3 years of quitting Endeavor, the love for the kids / place never ceases to die down. We grew to be the 4th largest player in the aptitude test prep space. Enough said!
Quit Endeavor in late 2017, poetically, on the day of CAT 2017.
Quit the education sector.
Tough to keep me off the "student relations", "career counseling", "mentoring" thing. So, I continue to stay so!
Jumped into pharma retail - Medkart Pharmacy - in 2017 end. Wonderful space to be in for the kind of value we create for the patients. A sector marked with an "unorganized sector approach" & severe information asymmetry. Living with a single vision of reducing medicine bills of patients.
Second such "early stage start up" and history repeating itself - with people at the helm doubling, tripling up on available roles and responsibilities. Carefully but quickly, we set up departments & a strong second line, and while in the 6th year of operations now, Medkart is already amongst the largest generic medicine retail chain in the country.
We are now 50 medical stores and probably the largest in Gujarat as far as the generic medicine retailing is concerned & over the next couple of years, we wish to educate, sensitize & help as many patients as we can because we strongly believe that medicines arent costly, but the are being made costly by the the intermediaries.
That's about the professional life so far.
Personally, a father of 2 kids - Ananya & Abhimanyu.
Apart from the above mentioned, I love staying fit - working out in the gym / home workouts / running / cycling / cricket / football - basically anything that keeps that me active.
I also love reading. Would have probably read more than a 400 books ranging whatever to whatever under the sun!
A strong believer in work-life balance & the cycle of Karma.
A typical Engineer - MBA with atypical sector choices.
Started with IT Consulting. Gave up in no time, because "ye na ho paayega zindagi bhar".
Then a decade at Endeavor Careers.
An "academician at heart" - was the thing that stayed along for a decade.
Technically, however, started with Business Development, added HR, Operations, IT over the course of a decade.
Endeavor, then in 2008 was an "early stage start up" wherein everyone was doubling, tripling up on other roles. The place was built by all of us with so much heart and student at the center of the ecosystem that even after nearly 3 years of quitting Endeavor, the love for the kids / place never ceases to die down. We grew to be the 4th largest player in the aptitude test prep space. Enough said!
Quit Endeavor in late 2017, poetically, on the day of CAT 2017.
Quit the education sector.
Tough to keep me off the "student relations", "career counseling", "mentoring" thing. So, I continue to stay so!
Jumped into pharma retail - Medkart Pharmacy - in 2017 end. Wonderful space to be in for the kind of value we create for the patients. A sector marked with an "unorganized sector approach" & severe information asymmetry. Living with a single vision of reducing medicine bills of patients.
Second such "early stage start up" and history repeating itself - with people at the helm doubling, tripling up on available roles and responsibilities. Carefully but quickly, we set up departments & a strong second line, and while in the 6th year of operations now, Medkart is already amongst the largest generic medicine retail chain in the country.
We are now 50 medical stores and probably the largest in Gujarat as far as the generic medicine retailing is concerned & over the next couple of years, we wish to educate, sensitize & help as many patients as we can because we strongly believe that medicines arent costly, but the are being made costly by the the intermediaries.
That's about the professional life so far.
Personally, a father of 2 kids - Ananya & Abhimanyu.
Apart from the above mentioned, I love staying fit - working out in the gym / home workouts / running / cycling / cricket / football - basically anything that keeps that me active.
I also love reading. Would have probably read more than a 400 books ranging whatever to whatever under the sun!
A strong believer in work-life balance & the cycle of Karma.
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