The current venture RecyKal is pioneer in waste management sector.
Recently, Abhay received the
award ‘The mentor of Hyderabad’ from prestigious YourStory and Telangana Innovation cell (A govt of Telangana
Initiative) group. Another feather in cap!
His better half
Pornima had managed to maintain the secret. Pornima had convinced Abhay with
story of dinner with kids as part of father’s day celebration. After all,
Pornima has mentored the celebrity ‘Mentor’ 😉
Abhay’s professional achievements have been covered at multiple
online posts where Abhay has given the credit to family, team, his dreams and
hard work. However, candid conversation amongst friends and family gave
different perspective about Abhay’s qualities those make him the outstanding
human being that he is today.
Abhay has traits
of his grandfather who had supported many persons at home town, ‘Nanded’.
Now Abhay is doing mentor-ship at broader platform.
Abhay is
blessed to be part of supportive and encouraging family.
Memories go two decades back. Nitin Padmawar and Girish Kasliwal
heard 1st time about Abhay at engineering college as legend
who had passed before them. After graduating, Nitin & Girish started
software business. Responsibilities were divided based on strength; Nitin was
hardcore techie and Girish worked towards business development.
While chasing same
government contract, Nitin & Girish met Abhay for first time as competitor.
Gradually interaction started and like-minded brains formed a team to build
success story.
Nitin who is
hardcore techie, appreciates how Abhay makes him visualize the dream as own.
Eventually Nitin falls in trap and brings the dream to reality. Recently, Abhay
had convinced Nitin that it would be fun projecting world cup cricket match
with friends and family at community’s club house. Abhay can identify
potential candidate & delegate. Though not being a cricket fan, Nitin
enjoyed arranging all connections & hardware for the match 😊. It was sheer fun while
cheering India to victory.
Nitin clearly
remembers struggle period. Abhay once convinced team to build product search
engine to fetch discounted price from each vendor. For team, challenge was to
access data. Abhay proposed to build system itself to procure data. Dream
big and strive to achieve!
Girish jokingly
recalls that Abhay never wrote software programs but knew how to apply them
practically. Abhay & Girish both handled business development. They worked
from adjacent cabins and managed deals depending on own strength.
Pornima’s father
(Papa) Mr. Ramesh lightheartedly shares dream about Pornima desiring to marry
a person doing various odd jobs. Is Abhay bringing the dream to reality by excelling
in diversified fields?
Abhay set first
office for ‘MalaMall.com’ at Khairtabad. Papa visited to meet Abhay as
prospective groom. Around year 2000, online business was new; Papa joking says,
“still he doesn’t understand what Abhay does 😊”.
Abhay’s
struggle, can be co-related with a story about British mountaineer girl. This
girl was saved after being buried under snow for 4 days. This accident lead to
leg amputation. But girl did not loose hope and she conquered Everest using
artificial limbs. This desire to struggle to achieve the goal in spite of
failures is Abhay’s quality.
Abhay continues
to correct previous mistakes; for example, team members are now chosen
depending on their capability.
Abhay laughs
while remembering registration of 200+ domain names each time new business idea
was struck.
Abhay can
foresee next problem. When others feel there is no escape from problem,
Abhay will show another aspect; real out of the box thinking.
Abhay with his go-getter
attitude and positive impatience continued to bring new dreams to
reality. Team is growing. Abhishek (aka Bittu) at RecyKal,
Prabhu at payment related portal and list goes on.
Pornima’s popularity as leader goes back to college days. While
contesting for Student’s Council, opposite party had kidnapped her but finally
released as Pornima was a strong contender. Poornima excelled at studies
too; received offer from leading MNC’. However, she preferred to handle family
responsibility so that Abhay could work peacefully.
Pornima proves
the saying that, ‘there is a woman behind every successful man’.
Daughters Aarya,
Aadi, appreciate mother for playing role of both parents during father’s busy
schedule. They are proud of their father and feel, he can work with total
dedication as mother efficiently handles home front.
Abhay enjoys
positivity amongst community friends. His 1st major success was
achieved after coming to community. After hectic day, relaxed evenings or
active mornings with sports (like cricket, lawn tennis, table tennis etc.) amongst
friends recharges his energy for next day.
Abhay has
striking quality to eat food with respect. He is a very friendly, humble
and modest person; always ready to help! It can be to help to physically
carry gas cylinder for neighbor or to negotiate property deal; anything where
Abhay can help.
Some friends
connect over sports, some over charity and other common interests.
Few connect to
him over his desire to share knowledge gained from his experience. He is
even ready to visit your home and guide; this small gesture builds great
bonds.
While mentoring
Abhay asks, what kind of feedback do you want? Sugar coated or straight? It is
heartening to know that 90+% people prefer straight feedback.
There are so
many qualities young generation can learn from Abhay. He is living role
model.
Extension to
quote that applies to Abhay: “It’s not the destination. It is not the journey.
It is what you become during
the journey.”
“…Napi hain mutthibhar
zameen, abhi to aasman baki hain”.
We all wish all the best to
Abhay, family and team!
Hyderabad :MartjackCeo Abhay
Deshpande On Startup India (YouTube – interview in Marathi)
A journey called life is a tryst with destiny . We don't stop trying - targets and destination keep on changing and we keep on achieving success and failures(experiences).The best part of the journey is when you are sitting with four friends ,looking back should always get a smile on your face .
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