ET Bureau“From bankruptcy to best-selling author, I have learnt that there is no such thing as failure,“ says entrepreneur and author Vishwas Mudagal, the 34-year-old cofounder of multi-million dollar startup GoodWorkLabs. While basking in the success of his debut novel ` Losing My Religion', he is on to delivering his next -a sci-fi trilogy.
“I was totally broken. My peers went ahead of me. I felt like a loser,“ confesses Mudagal, recalling times when his portal, Jobeehive.com, failed and bankruptcy stared him in the eye.That was 2007 and he had no idea that his rollercoaster ride had just begun! The electronics engineer ran away ... on an unchartered journey across India on a motorcycle. Then he was offered the post of CEO of Canadian MNC Castle Rock.
While Mudagal was delighted, he silently mourned the end of the bike journey . He took a vicarious voyage instead: he wrote a book about a bankrupt protagonist who embarks on a journey across India and learns life-lessons from his travel partner, an American hippie. It took him five years to write `Losing My Religion'.
The book was turned down by publishers. When it was finally in print, it became a best-seller, selling 20,000 copies and translated into Hindi and Kannada.“If you follow your passion, the world will follow yours,“ believes the Dharwad-born. If one wants to enjoy multiple lifetimes, write a book, is Mudgal's advice. His favourite writers are Ayn Rand and Jeffrey Archer. Then why is he not a full-time writer? “Because converting an idea into a solution gives me as much of a kick,“ comes the reply.
Mudgal believes that in the corporate world, one sells a vision.Writing, he says, helps one communicate better. Currently, Mudagal is enjoying his company's success. It earned a revenue of $ 2.5 million in 2015.
His work-in-progress a sci-fi trilogy based in India is interlaced with super-humans and artificial intelligence located in a chaotic future with global war III and an approaching dark age.“It's a huge canvas. The title is undecided. The first part of the trilogy, in the editing process, will release by November,“ says Mudagal, who also has plans of designing a game around it. The television and cinema buff is also in talks with Bollywood producers to convert his book `Losing My Religion' into a film.
“Never get stuck in one profession. Be shameless and experiment. Discover what you love,“ advises Mudagal, clearly proving that one must take each failure as unfinished success.
“I was totally broken. My peers went ahead of me. I felt like a loser,“ confesses Mudagal, recalling times when his portal, Jobeehive.com, failed and bankruptcy stared him in the eye.That was 2007 and he had no idea that his rollercoaster ride had just begun! The electronics engineer ran away ... on an unchartered journey across India on a motorcycle. Then he was offered the post of CEO of Canadian MNC Castle Rock.
While Mudagal was delighted, he silently mourned the end of the bike journey . He took a vicarious voyage instead: he wrote a book about a bankrupt protagonist who embarks on a journey across India and learns life-lessons from his travel partner, an American hippie. It took him five years to write `Losing My Religion'.
The book was turned down by publishers. When it was finally in print, it became a best-seller, selling 20,000 copies and translated into Hindi and Kannada.“If you follow your passion, the world will follow yours,“ believes the Dharwad-born. If one wants to enjoy multiple lifetimes, write a book, is Mudgal's advice. His favourite writers are Ayn Rand and Jeffrey Archer. Then why is he not a full-time writer? “Because converting an idea into a solution gives me as much of a kick,“ comes the reply.
Mudgal believes that in the corporate world, one sells a vision.Writing, he says, helps one communicate better. Currently, Mudagal is enjoying his company's success. It earned a revenue of $ 2.5 million in 2015.
His work-in-progress a sci-fi trilogy based in India is interlaced with super-humans and artificial intelligence located in a chaotic future with global war III and an approaching dark age.“It's a huge canvas. The title is undecided. The first part of the trilogy, in the editing process, will release by November,“ says Mudagal, who also has plans of designing a game around it. The television and cinema buff is also in talks with Bollywood producers to convert his book `Losing My Religion' into a film.
“Never get stuck in one profession. Be shameless and experiment. Discover what you love,“ advises Mudagal, clearly proving that one must take each failure as unfinished success.
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