How Did Education Play A Crucial Role in Shantanu Naidu’s career, Ratan Tata’s Assistant

Shantanu Naidu is so much more than just Ratan Tata’s youngest assistant. Shantanu, a Cornell University alumnus, has excellent business acumen and even wrote the book “I Came Upon A Lighthouse.” At such a young age, Shantanu has provided funding for initiatives that support people and animals, the elderly, and budding businesses. Shantanu, an engineer, and business graduate, has shown how education is crucial to our success . Here is all the information you require about Shantanu Naidu.

About Shantanu Naidu

Shantanu Naidu was born in 1993 in Pune, Maharashtra. He is a well-known Indian businessman, author, junior assistant, DGM, engineer, and social media influencer. The deputy general manager of Tata Trust, Shantanu Naidu, is highly known all over the nation. In 2014, Shantanu Naidu graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Pune University.

Biography of Shantanu Naidu

Shantanu Naidu, an MBA graduate from Cornell University, has worked for two years with Ratan Tata. The MBA holder applied all the business principles learned from Tata’s personal experiences. During a trip to the United States last winter, Shantanu sent entrepreneurs and small business owners copies of his startup pitch deck template. Shantanu has a Twitter following, has worked as a junior assistant at Google, and has turned personal experiences into useful business knowledge.

Shantanu Naidu’s Early Years and Education

Shantanu Naidu was raised and born in Pune, Maharashtra. After completing his education in his birthplace, he attended Savitribai Phule Pune University from 2010 to 2014 to earn a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering. In 2016, he continued his education by pursuing a two-year MBA at Cornell University’s famous Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Personal Life of Shantanu Naidu

From his family, Shantanu is the fifth generation working for Tata. Coming from a very encouraging family, Naidu is currently assumed to be single and unmarried. According to his physical attributes, he weighs 65 kilograms and is 5 feet and 9 inches tall. His hair and eyes are black.

Achievements of Shantanu Naidu

Shantanu received numerous awards while attending Cornell University, including the Johnson Leadership Case Competition and the Hemmeter Entrepreneurship Award. In addition, he served as a member of the Consulting, Tech Club, and SGE Club, the vice president of finance for the South Asian Business Association, the founder and president of the Cornell Motorcycle Association, and the president of the Johnson Pets Association.

He also wrote several pieces for the Cornell Business Journal, including Three entrepreneurial skills I learnt at Cornell, Survival Tips for First Year MBAs, Of Businessmen and Innovators, and Businesses and Natural Disasters.

Start-Ups by Shantanu Naidu

Motopaws

Shantanu established Motopaws in January 2009 to prevent stray dogs from dying on the road at night due to poor vision. Months of toil and study went into developing the Motopaws collar, a collar with reflectors made exclusively for street dogs to solve this issue. Ratan Tata, the chairman of the TATA group, provided funding for this endeavor. Additionally, Motopaws created anti-poaching devices for tigers in India that used sensor circuits, and it facilitated their adoption through the forest department in four distinct national reserves.

On Your Sparks

In 2020, On Your Sparks was established as a sister project of Motopaws. It is a forum for counseling that aims to encourage and introduce aspiring business owners to the proper principles and values before they enter the startup world. Based on his work experience with Ratan Tata and helping him with mentoring entrepreneurs, Shantanu devised and curated the courses offered. Its main goal is to expand Motopaws’ animal initiatives for stray animal safety, feeding, and rescue across more than 15 cities in the nation. Over 300 kids are taught there each month, and they also assist stray animals.

GoodFellows

There are about 15 million elderly people in India who live alone and lead solitary, lonely lives. Goodfellows focuses on providing companionship to the elderly. It is a young firm that offers senior citizens intergenerational partnerships and refers to itself as a “companionship company.” In order to combat loneliness, it engages young, educated graduates up to the age of 30 to form intergenerational friendships with the elderly.

Shantanu Naidu Career

From 2009 to 2010, Shantanu Naidu first began working as an engineering intern at Tata Technologies. Then, from September 2014 to July 2016, he worked at Tata Elxsi as a Design Engineer following the completion of his mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree.

After taking a sabbatical, he decided to pursue his MBA at Cornell University in the USA in 2016. Shantanu started working as a business strategy intern at Tata Trusts after moving back to India, and he quickly became Ratan Tata’s deputy general manager.

‘I Came Upon A Lighthouse: A Short Memoir of Life’ with Ratan Tata, a book by Shantanu Naidu was released by HarperCollins India in January 2021.