Name: Fintech Founders | Anandhi Dhukaram, Esdha
Uploaded: 2023-04-04T15:40:34.713Z
Duration: 160.6
Description: Anandhi Dhukaram, founder of Esdha, drops the advice she would give herself if she could go back to when she founded her company. As part of our series on fintech founders, we’re getting up close and personal with entrepreneurs to reflect on the things they’d do differently if they could go back in time, and their favourite things about running their own business.

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Yeah, so we help organizations

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with their AI transformation,

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providing AI training and workshops,

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So just for banking, financial institutes,

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as well as healthcare organizations.

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Well I had, I started my career in AI

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in 1999 and since then I've been in the

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AI industry over the last five years.

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I've been researching about failures

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of ai and that showed me that.

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70 to 80% of AI projects fail.

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Not mainly because of technology,

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but because of people.

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So that's where I thought, okay,

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we need to start this organization.

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I say it was a long journey because

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when you look at organization failures,

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if being a techie, you think about

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solving the technical problem.

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But then I thought people

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problem is the biggest one.

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And I love teaching and

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training, so that's why I'm here.

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Learning from you know, networking

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actually, and that's why I'm

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here today to network here.

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Yes.

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Coming to conferences, meeting

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people, I should have done it sooner.

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Oh wow.

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That's so much.

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So as a founder, you wear so many hats

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and you are, you don't have much resources

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in terms of finance as well as skill.

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So it's a rollercoaster, right.

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You have, you need to have

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the right team, right people.

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And once you have the right

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you know, contracts in place,

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I think it's a lot better.

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It's really hard to predict the

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future, but I think we should be in

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a very big position, where we could

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provide a lot of transformation for

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not just the organizations, but beyond

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empowering people, one at a time that.

So just for banking, financial institutes,

and you are, you don't have much resources

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Anandhi Dhukaram, founder of Esdha, drops the advice she would give herself if she could go back to when she founded her company.

As part of our series on fintech founders, we’re getting up close and personal with entrepreneurs to reflect on the things they’d do differently if they could go back in time, and their favourite things about running their own business. 


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