Episode 36: Pramath Sinha- Building a legacy in education

About Pramath Sinha:

My next guest on The One Percent Project is Pramath Sinha. Pramath is an entrepreneur, educator and institution builder, having conceptualised and built hallmark educational institutes such as the Indian School of Business and Ashoka University. Now, he is on the journey of building Harappa Education- a platform that helps future leaders learn essential cognitive, social and behavioural skills.

He has also founded the Vedica Scholars program for women and the Naropa Fellowship. He kicked off his career with McKinsey & Company, headed ABP media and founded the 9.9 Media group.

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In this conversation he talks about:

1. His journey to finding purpose;
2. How he goes from an idea to execution;
3. What does an Institution mean to him?
4. Who are early adopters, and why are they unique?
5. Building Harappa; and
6. His legacy and contribution to Hindi Literature

Some Key Highlights:

• How to identify Purpose? I have realised that your Purpose doesn't grow on trees, nor is it buried somewhere for you to go on a treasure hunt and find it and dig it out for yourself. Your Purpose, you find by discovery. And to discover it, you have to try out different things. The more different things you try out, the more you realise what you don't like or what is not your Purpose. And somewhere, you hit upon things that seem like your Purpose. So you engage in that, and you stay with it for a long time, or you say, no, there's a slight variation on this that I want to do, and then that becomes your Purpose.
• How do you start as high as possible? Because the lower you start, the longer it takes to get to that high benchmark. And sometimes, you can never get there because the lower you start, the more you get stuck at that level. Quality doesn't scale. You have to set the quality bar from day one and then scale on quantity without diluting quality, but trying to scale quality is almost an impossible task.
• In taking the idea to execution- You can't execute it all yourself. So your real skill lies in identifying great people, setting the vision and a high bar. You have to hire a crack team of people and be uncompromising about it.