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Started from Bihar and built an 8000 CR company with 5500 employees. 1. Born into a middle-class family in the southern city of Bhagalpur in Bihar, Mahesh Kumar made everyone proud when he secured admission to Btech at the prestigious IIT Bombay. He followed it up with a PhD from MIT. He interned at McKinsey, but his passion lay elsewhere.👇 2. Mahesh wanted to teach and became a faculty at the R.H. Smith School of Business and Rutgers Business School. He taught data mining and statistical modelling and consulted companies on pricing and customer analytics. His life was going smoothly, but he noticed something. 🤔 3. In 2011, Lakhs of companies sought data-driven solutions, but lacked skilled analytics practitioners. Prof. Kumar teamed up with data scientist Pradeep Gulipalli, along with ten junior data scientists between California and Chennai. In 2011, Tiger Analytics was born. 🚀 4. The vision was simple ⏩ Build a "best-in-class" AI and analytics consulting firm. Mahesh began developing a real-time ad-bidding system, a nationwide rail sensor failure detection solution, and other business propositions utilizing machine learning. However, he still had no major client for two years. And then 2013 happened. 👇 5. Tiger Analytics served a Fortune 500 semiconductor company with software to optimize inventory stock decisions. However, Mahesh knew he had to shift 360 degrees in analytics quickly. By 2014, he started building natural-language processing and semantic recommendation engines for news. And then a deal came in 2015. 🤔 6. A large company wanted to acquire Tiger Analytics, but Mahesh declined the offer. He thought, why sell your independence? Instead, he built reusable analytics "building blocks" for new use cases, much like Lego blocks. He then launched Tiger Academy, an in-house training program, in 2017 to upskill employees. ✅ 7. He grew slowly, but only 5% of his staff left, which was the lowest in the Industry. They had over 50 clients across various industries, including retail, banking and finance, insurance, and manufacturing. It developed both bespoke consulting and proprietary analytics products such as TigerML and Tiger Blueprints for rapid model development. 🙌 8. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became the first company to announce an unlimited leave policy for employees. By 2021, It crossed the 1,000-employee mark. Even legacy consulting firms could not compete with them, as they focused on reusable AI accelerators and launched their products. 📈 9. Today, Tiger Analytics clocks a revenue of 2100 CR and serves over 100 clients in India, the US, Canada, the UK, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia, and Spain. It has grown to over 4500 employees in India and 1000 globally. 💪 ➡️But the best part - Mahesh Kumar did not forget his roots and opened Tiger Analytics' office in his hometown, Bihar, on 26th October 2023. It became the first US IT company to enter the state. 🙏