A deep conversation with Shashank ND, co-founder of Practo, India’s leading healthcare app. A ‘youngish’ entrepreneur, Shashank started on his start-up journey at the age of 21!

An engineer from NIT Surathkal, Shashank’s tryst with entrepreneurship started when he became part of a college club at NIT called EUPHORIA (which got him interested in entrepreneurship). During his early years, he saw the gaps in the medical ecosystem from up close when his father was medically mistreated. This instance got him involved in solving the myriad problems in the healthcare infra in modern day India which led to him starting Practo in 2008.

Shashank believes that to sustain growth and success, one needs a constant “source of energy” to channel creativity and drive productivity which eventually forms the bedrock of any startup success. He opines that to create great products, one simply needs to persevere with a sense of obsession towards solving a problem and not quitting till the solution is reached.

Shashank further shares that one is ready to start on their own by focusing on solving the problem and being content with only a handful of happy customers. He says that this threshold was his litmus test when he started back when he was 21.

A firm believer of focusing on the quality of input to ensure the quality of output, listen to Shashank’s fascinating and inspiring journey.