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Dan Shaw

Dan Shaw: Godfather Of Node.Js Who Empowers Production-Ready Node.Js Applications Through Nodesource

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All know that IoT, AI, websites, and many other network applications are the future of the digital world. But these all applications demand a faster network for its better functionality. However, Node.js is the perfect platform to build faster and scalable web applications. Therefore, many leading companies use Node.js to power their websites and network applications. NodeSource is a well-known Node.js company. Presently, it is assisting many organizations to design Node.js applications to stand out in the modern digital era. Dan Shaw founded it back in 2014 to empower production-ready Node.js applications. 

NodeSource

NodeSource is an IT company having headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Currently, it is helping numerous leading companies to build Node.js applications. Also, it provides services and products to design and manage critical applications. For these services, Nodesource uses Node.js that has long-term technology plans, any company needed. In fact, the company has acquired customers like Mastercard, PayPal, Intel, Uber, NASA and many more.

It was established in 2014 by a young entrepreneur Dan Shaw.

Dan Shaw

He is best known for his contribution to the foundation of Node.js. Also, he served as an Executive director and secretary for Node.js foundation board of directors. In fact, he has been referred to as “Godfather of Node.js”. Because Dan Shaw worked very hard to build the Node.js community. In addition, he established the NodeSource to take this work further and introduced the power of Node.js to the world. 

Education

He completed his graduation in computer science from West Virginia University in 2006. During his degree, he was awarded for the best presentation in advanced project management. It was for a presentation on “Complex Adaptive Systems in Systems Engineering.” After that, he completed an MS in software engineering from the same university in 2008.

Career

In 2014, he co-founded NodeSource, a first commercial entity to productize Node.js. However, Dan is best known for founding several Node.js start-ups. Includes, Storify, Voxer, and Spreecast. Also, he established the first Node.js consulting company called ‘The Node Firm’. Dan also served at PayPal as a Global Head of Developer relations. Apart from that, he is a speaker at JavaScript, Node.js, and Realtime conferences. In fact, prior to Node, he worked in several important government contracts for Defense, Education, and Health Care.

Dan is also the host of the NodeUp podcast and organizes many events to improve and flourish the Node Community. For example, NodeBots day, NodeBots SF meetup and many such events. He also referred to as a “Voice of Node.js” for his long-time service as a NodeUp podcast host.

Dan Shaw’s contributions

Dan Shaw is expertise in building large-scale and real-time systems using Node.js. In fact, he is in the business of building production services using Node since v0.2. NodeSource is a result of his immense efforts to build and grow the Node.js applications. He also served as CTO at NodeSource. Presently, the company is dedicated to establishing a sustainable Node.js ecosystem. His contribution to building the node community is noticeable that made him “Godfather of Node.js”.

NodeSource- Empowering Node.js applications

Presently, the company provides a platform to design and maintain Node.js applications. These application runtimes are the fastest-growing open source project worldwide. In fact, about 500 organizations use Node.js applications for their multiple network applications.

In the digital era, any organizations need technology plans that are long-term and adaptable to future technologies. NodeSource is the first commercial entity that productizes Node.js. However, Node.js can power the many such networking applications that come with long-term technology plans. Also, it improves the performance and security of the applications. Thus, NodeSource assisting many organizations to empower Node.js based applications. Indirectly, helping to stand out in this digital world.

udacity

Udacity Is Unleashing The True Power of E-Learning With Moocs

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Most of the students irrespective of belonging from India or abroad prefer learning online over attending classes. Honestly, coaching classes are boring when you have to sit for hours and listen to the monotonous lectures. But, the internet has made our life easy, right? And, the MOOCs (Massive open online courses) has made our lives easier.

Everyone will agree that the academic curriculum provides us limited knowledge. What if you want to learn something new that is not in your syllabus? After all, there shouldn’t be any limit to learning. Udacity, an educational organization founded in 2012 provides online courses for students all over the world. The teaching faculties of Udacity belong to some of the top-most universities around the globe.

Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky founded this organization to spread the benefit of online education among students and every learning enthusiast.

About the founders

Sebastian went to the University of Hildesheim and studied computer science, economics, and medicine. After this, he went for his bachelor’s degree and graduated from the University of Bonn in 1993. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science and statistics. His career started in the year 1995 when he joined Carnegie Mellon University as a research computer scientist.

He worked as an assistant professor at CMU for many years and also at Stanford University from 2007 to 2011. In 2004, he became the director of SAIL. In 2011, he joined Google and founded Google X. And, in 2012 he co-founded the online private educational organization, Udacity.

David is a very brilliant programmer who graduated from Princeton University at the age of nineteen. He acquired his bachelor’s degree in computer science and completed both his master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford University. David is also very much interested in autonomous cars and he created Stanford’s autonomous car team. He became the CEO of Udacity when it was launched.

Sokolsky went to CMU and acquired his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer engineering. He joined the University of Alberta as a research associate and in 2009 joined Stanford University for the SAIL autonomous driving group. He co-founded Udacity and became the CTO of the organization. He left Udacity in 2013 and joined Spire. He co-founded Artificial in 2018 and serves as an Advisor currently.

Educating the mass

Starting Udacity was a part of a small project whose outcome was shocking to Sebastian. When he taught students in his class he didn’t feel satisfied. He wanted not only to teach only 200 students paying a lucrative amount for higher education but to the entire world. So, one fine day he just started making videos and teaches the same way he does at Stanford.

He gave assignments, tests and followed every step he does with the university students. Sebastian was surprised when he found out that the students who topped the examination learned from the internet and weren’t part of Stanford. This led Sebastian to take the next step and finally to establish an organization.

Story of Udacity

Since artificial intelligence and machine learning is grasping the market in the new world, Sebastian decided to offer computer science courses in Udacity. From the basics to the most advanced level courses were made available. A couple of months after Udacity became public, 90,000 students enrolled for two different classes in this platform. Sebastian expected to hit half a million headcount shortly.

The project was growing in size which attracted few big investors like Charles River Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Initially, Sebastian funded $200,000 from his pocket but later in 2012, Udacity received a massive amount of $15 million from Horowitz. After a year, Sebastian said in an interview that his product is very disappointing. Only 5% of the total students enrolling for the courses are completing it.

This is contradictory to his aim for Udacity. And, he decided to shift his focus to the vocational courses for professionals. Udacity expanded its courses and by 2014 it had twelve full courses and, twenty-six free courseware. Within a couple of years, Udacity witnesses 1.6 million users.

Udacity’s next target is to double the headcount in India. Since India is developing exponentially in the digital space more students are expected to sign up for Nanodegree programs on Data analytics, machine learning, etc. Currently, Udacity has 11.5 million users across the world.

Sumit Mittal

From a Promising Future in MasterCard to the Genesis of Own Company, Sumit Mittal Imparts Inspiration To All Ambitious People

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Amidst the evolving self-centric mode of lifestyle, it is very difficult to find people who are concerned about the well-being of others. Among the crowd of people full of aspirants striving to reach the epitome of success, someone trying to bring about a change in society is a very remarkable event and worth an applause. Such is the inspiring story of entrepreneur Sumit Mittal.

Early life

Born to an army father, Mr. Mittal had a very humble upbringing. He looked up to his father for advice who was himself full of creative ideas even though he worked in the Army. Mr. Mittal remembers the golden words of his father –“You have to give your best no matter what the outcome is” and he has stuck to that saying both in his studies as well as his career.

Mr. Mittal was surrounded by engineering professionals in his family, be it his father or brother/cousins and hence it was but natural to pursue a course in Engineering in the so-called “follow the family tradition”. His journey gives scope for a wide array of hope and determination to all the motivated people who have the zeal to be successful in life.

Education & Career

Having pursued his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical field, Mr. Mittal went on to pursue Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in Delhi, and he went ahead with his prospective career as a Credit Analyst at GE Capital – State Bank of India JV where he conducted credit appraisal on credit card portfolio.

Mr. Mittal was the founder member team at SBI Credit Card and is a trained six sigma professional. Following the big shot in GE Capital, the foresighted man moved on with his endeavor in MasterCard starting as the Manager in Finance, and due to his hard work and agility, he was transferred to Mastercard Dubai office to head the Franchise Department for entire South Asia, Middle East & Africa Region.

During this time, he also pursued an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK attaining an additional degree in Management besides his PGDBM. Then Mr. Mittal rose to the position of VP & Country Manager of Kuwait/Qatar/Oman where he spearheaded the growth of Mastercard business in Kuwaitsignificantly capturing share from archival Visa in favor of Mastercard. During this time, Mr. Mittal was awarded the Sales Champion Award for the Middle East & Africa region for exemplary sales performance and breaking the stronghold of the competition.

He also got various other awards during his tenure at Mastercard Dubai. After spending 8 years in Dubai Mr. Mittal moved back to India office and became the Head of Global Account for South Asia division looking after all Global banks. Little did he know that his stint of Middle East wasn’t over and he was offered the role of Senior Business Leader in MEA, Dubai, where he spent another 3 years before he called quits to the corporate life in 2017 and moved on to establish himself as an entrepreneur.

The turning point in life

Being part of the chaotic world framework, he was struck by the realization that the greatest threat in the contemporary era is the anger issue. Unable to comprehend the emotional upheaval, moreover the inability to channelize the anger in the correct direction has driven the mass to various mental problems stranding them of peace and sanity in their life.

Start of Entrepreneurial Journey

To combat such serious problems, Sumit Mittal with his caliber and phenomenal talent came up with the genesis of his start-up Crestline Biz Solutions, the parent company of VentAllOut–a social platform enhancing “Freedom of Expression” where people can share their frustration without being discovered and judged.

People can write their opinion and comment covering a wide array of topics from politics to current affairs, confession, relationship & grievance. VentAllOut is a health-tech platform that aims to provide a podium for people to express their emotions, opinions, and sentiments, anonymously, on varied topics of interests, promoting healthy discussions and active networking based on content preference.

It is created to break the barrier in reaching out to a like-minded community, anonymously and thereby, enabling users to express themselves candidly on any topic that might be bothering / concerning them. Furthermore, to provide last-mile support, users may also reach out to experts on the panel and discuss their issues or problems and get timely advice. 

Besides VentAllOut, his true creative mind with the inclination towards sales and business management encouraged him to conceptualize Shoppyfier, a deal discovery platform listing all the offers customers can avail in a particular brand or shop.

Coming with a backup of great energy and potential, Mr. Mittal has always excelled in his life and while he goes through his journey as an entrepreneur he does sneak time out to indulge in the hobbies of traveling and entertaining himself to a round of golf. Mr. Mittal is married and has three lovely children who keep asking questions about the venture……. probably inheritance already coming to play!!!

Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn Rules The Automobile Industry While Being On House Arrest

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Honestly is a very important factor when one wants to be successful in life. But, what is more, important is standing in front of the entire world and having the confidence to defend oneself. Carlos Ghosn is the epitome of confidence, who is ready to seek justice at any cost. A powerful business, who instead of fleeing justice pointed out the flaws of the Japanese justice system. People who are barely interested in the business world have also heard about Carlos Ghosn. He is a famous Brazilian businessman who has served prestigious positions in many famous companies. He has served as the CEO of Michelin North America, CEO of Renault, and, many more. But, this year, he has become one of the most famous wanted fugitives.

Early Life

Carlos has a very interesting family history. He belongs to a family of rich businessmen and traders. Carlos’s grandfather was Bichara Ghosn, who became very famous in the entrepreneurial world. Carlos’s father was also a famous diamond trader who was convicted of murdering a priest.

Born on 9th March 1954, Carlos moved to different places during his childhood. He was born in Porto Velho but at the age of two, he and his mother moved to Rio de Janeiro as he became very sick. Again at the age of six years old, he moved to Lebanon.

Carlos completed his schooling from Lebanon and then he went to Paris for higher education. In 1974, he graduated from Ecole Polytechnique with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He also went to Mines Paris Tech and graduated in the year 1978.

Early Career

Carlos’s career started with Michelin, a French tire manufacturing company. It is Europe’s largest tire manufacturing company and he worked there for eighteen years. He joined the company in 1978 and in 1984 he became the head of research and development for the company’s industrial tire division. In 1985, Carlos became the Chief Operating Officer for the South American market of Michelin.

Carlos has a very rich multicultural experience and that is why he fled to Rio and helped out Michelin regarding cross-functional management. He led the team with his unique management style and after a couple of years, the division again started making profits. In 1989, Carlos became the COO and President of Michelin North America. He became CEO of the same in the next year.

With Renault and Nissan

In 1996, Carlos became the President in charge of the marketing department and also the manufacturing sector. He had a major contribution to Renault as he was in charge of the South American division as well. He decided to restructure the entire company and in 1997 the company made a huge profit.

In 1999, after the joint partnership of Renault and Nissan, Carlos became the COO of Nissan. He became President of the company in 2000 and became the CEO of the company in 2001. During the year 1999, Nissan was drowning in debt and only three out of forty-six of its models were making profits. Carlos decided to turn the fate of this company and drawn some clear strategies for bringing the company on track.

Carlos also said that if he didn’t achieve the goal by 2001, he will resign from the company. After he started implemented Nissan’s Revival Plan, the company made a profit of $2.7 billion. Carlos successfully reached the goals for the company.

Carlos was named one of the most powerful people in business out of Europe by Fortune. In May 2005, Carlos became the President and CEO of Renault. Carlos became the first person in the entire world to run two famous companies listed on Fortune Global 500. He became one of the prominent figures in the Japanese business world and also outside. In April 2017, he stepped down from the position of Nissan’s CEO.

The allegations

Carlos was accused of misusing the company’s assets and thus Japan’s federal system arrested him. In November 2018, he was arrested at Haneda Airport. Nissan accused him of extorting money from the company for buying his yacht, houses, etc. But, he denies all of it. Carlos also said the justice system of Japan treated him like a terrorist and stood in front of more than a hundred journalists and admitted he is innocent.

But, on 2nd January 2020, Interpol sent a red notice to Lebanon for the arrest of Carlos. He was also in house arrest for a long span in Tokyo.

Chobolabs

Chobolabs: Result of Denyen & Peter’s vision to bring real-time gaming to smartphones

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Nowadays, the most preferred way of entertainment is spending time on Smartphones and tablets. Also, thousands of mobile games and applications find a way to become popular entertainment stuff. But still, hardcore gamers find it difficult to play the real games on their smartphones. In fact, smartphones support very few such competitive multiplayer games. Yet, Chobolabs noticed these things and aspire to reveal the smartphone’s hidden potential. It turns the smartphones into the tiny console in the pockets of hardcore gamers across the world. 

What is Chobolabs?

Chobolabs is a boon for gamers, who wanted their smartphone to be capable of providing real-time gaming experience. As a matter of fact, in the Korean language ‘Chobo’ means newbie or a beginner. Just as the name, Chobolabs is a pioneer in finding the ways that enhance the smartphone capability to support real-time multiplayer games. In fact, the foundation of the company is based on the belief that true mobile gamers deserve great hardcore games. An entrepreneur Petar Dobrev and Deyan Vitanov established it in 2012. Today, it is working successfully to bring competitive gaming to smartphones.

Presently, Chobolabs has successfully brought the Esports to mobile. Also, it is working hard to bring the real-gaming experience to smartphones. In fact, the company achieved it at some level. But it has been never easy for founders to convert their unique idea into reality. 

The backstory of Chobolabs foundation

It gets started, when their previous start-up had acquired. So, they began to explore what to do next. That time, eSports were so popular that have completely dominated the consoles and Pcs. However, both Peter and Deyan were programmers first. Also, both are growing up playing competitive games like Counter-Strike, but on computers. As a gamer, they were always searching for such games on mobile phones. In fact, they find several such games. But these games were just a lame copy that wasn’t working on smartphones at all. Being a programmer, they found, it is failed due to the wrong design combination and other technical factors. 

Yet, Peter and Deyan both were knowing that mobiles are capable to do so. Thus, they established Chobolabs to bring such gaming experience on mobile phones. 

Deyan Vitanov- Co-Founder and CEO

Deyan Vitanov is a programmer and entrepreneur, who Co-Founded several start-ups. Includes, Philanthropedia CPP-Home, and Chobolabs. Presently, he is the CEO of a mobile esports company called Chobolabs. 

Early Life

Deyan was born and brought up in Bourgas, Bulgaria. At the age of 9, his father brought a computer for him. Since then he falls in love with programming. Soon, he learned several programming languages proficiently. Like, Pascal, C, C++, etc. Also, he won several national-level programming competitions.

During his high school, Deyan co-founded his first internet company, CPP-Home in 2001. It was the C++ learning hub. 

Education and career

He attended Jacobs University Bremen for his bachelor’s degree in integrated social science. That time, he won the German Academic Exchange service award for his excellent performance in college. After that, he completed an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2008, he co-founded Philanthropedia, which is acquired by GuideStar in 2011.

Peter Dobrev- Co-founder of Chobolabs

In 2012, Peter Dobrev successfully co-founded Chobolabs with Deyan Vitanov. Also, he served proudly as a founding engineer at Philanthropedia. Apart from that, he is the most versatile and skilled ethical hacker. 

He went to Jacobs University, Bremen for his graduation as well as a master’s degree in computer science. During his master’s program, he worked as a research assistant on point-based graphics and multi-variate visualization. Also, he was an intern at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Where he assisted in the research and development of an algorithm to estimate height fields from normal maps. 

Presently, he is working on Chobolabs.

Bottom Line

Chobolabs is working continuously under the Deyan and Peter’s guidance. So that, it can enable eSports for gamers on all types of smartphones. Presently, it’s one of the franchises, Mayhem is working successfully. It has 1 Million plus downloads and 4.5-star ratings on average. Also, it has been featured by Google, Apple, TwitchCon and many others.

Subaru

Subaru – One Of The Most Prominent Japanese Automobile Companies

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The automobile industry keeps growing and flourishing for a long time. Many Asian companies have gained recognition in the automobile industry. But, Subaru is one of the largest automobile companies in Asia. And, in the world, it ranks twenty-second largest in terms of its production.

The population of Japan has witnessed huge rapid development in every field in the last few decades. From software companies to the automotive industry, they have buckled up to set and break their record. Subaru Corporation is the parent company of Subaru, the automobile sector. In 1953, Kenji Kiti and Chikuhei Nakajima founded the company. Though the parent company belonged to Chikuhei, Kenji built his own from scratch.

How did it start?

Chikuhei was a very prominent person on the lands of Japan. Apart from being a gigantic industrialist, Chikuhei was a Japanese naval officer, engineer, and politician. He went to Naval Staff College and then to the United States for further studies. He also went to Europe for some time. Chikuhei was the third Japanese to receive a pilot license.

In 1915, Chikuhei decided to establish a career in the industrial world as well and established Fuji Heavy Industries. Initially, Chikuhei started it as an aircraft research laboratory then later it became a manufacturing house of aircraft. The company’s name was renamed as Nakajima Aircraft Company and the production escalated during World War II.

After World War II

In 1946, after World War II ended, the company became famous as Fuji Sangyo Co. This year, the company created its first motor scooter, Fuji Rabbit. They used the spare parts of aircraft from the war to build it. In 1950, the Japanese government passed a new act which led the division of the company to twelve different smaller corporations.

Founding Kenji

During this time, Kenji was the CEO of Fuji Heavy Industries. But, he wanted to establish a new car company of his own. He started planning accordingly. Kenji suggested many names for the company and he found all of them very less attractive. But, Kenji decided to name his company “Subaru” which means Pleiades Star Cluster in Japan.

The first car of Subaru was Subaru 1500. Kenji came across a lot of obstacles regarding the manufacturing unit. And, only twenty of Subaru 1500 were manufactured. Later, more models like the tiny air-cooled 360, the Sambar, and, 1000 came up.

Nissan, General Motors and finally Toyota

Fuji Heavy Industries was the parent company of Subaru. And, in 1968, Nissan acquired 20.4 percent of its stake. This was a government order with a vision to go international and improve competitiveness. But, the acquisition was beneficial for both the companies. Nissan decided to use the strategy of Fuji Heavy Industries’s bus manufacturing unit. And, in turn, Subaru even now uses manufacturing parts of Nissan.

After the partnership, Subaru launched a series of new models. In 1969, it introduced R-2 which was followed by the Rex, the Leon, the BRAT, the Legacy, and, many more. In 1999, Nissan’s stake at FHI was sold to General Motors as Renault acquired Nissan. After this arrangement, Subaru introduced Baja in 2003 and Tribeca in 2005.

In 2005, the stake of FHI was liquidated by General Motors. Toyota Motors acquired 40 percent of this stake which accounts for 8.7 percent of the total stake. The joint of Toyota Motors and Fuji Heavy Industries worked off well and they have committed to many projects since then. In 2008, Toyota was having a 16.5 percent stake of FHI and they jointly launched the Toyota 86.

Eco-friendly manufacturers

Subaru is very strict about environmental issues and it claims to educate its every employee regarding recycling, eco-friendly implementations. And, unlike most of the company Subaru does preach and practice. The Lafayette Subaru plant achieved zero-landfill status as every by-product from the plant were recycled and reused.

In 2006, this plant received the U.S. EPA’s Gold Achievement Award in the sector of WasteWise Program.

The company has its current headquarters in Ebisu, Tokyo. Apart from Japan, Subaru has well-established markets in Canada, the United Kingdom and, United States. In Asia, it has production plants in Bangkok, Thailand, the Philippines, and many other places.