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Biography
Balaji Viswanathan is an Indian writer, author, entrepreneur and engineer, known for his valuable contributions on the question-and-answer site Quora.
He has been the top-writer (on Quora) of the year(s) 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 with over 20 articles published on Forbes, Slate, Business Insider and other places. He is the author of From Tryst to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India, a book on the history of contemporary India.
He is currently the CEO and founder of Invento Robotics, India.
Education
Balaji graduated in 2004 from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India. He received a Master of Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, in 2007.
In the years 2012-2014, he studied business at the Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and received a Master of Business Administration degree.
In 2009, he founded NalandaU, a virtual university delivering online education. In the years 2012-2014, he founded zingfin.com and Be Limitless Inc. He then worked as a product manager for Black Duck Software, a Massachusetts-based company founded by Douglas Levin.
In 2016, he founded Invento Robotics, in Bengaluru, India. He is currently the CEO of the company.
Quora
Balaji has written more than 3,480 answers and has 251.9k followers on Quora as of January 15th, 2017. His articles have been published on Fatherly, Time, Slate, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Fortune, Newsweek, VentureBeat, Inc, Business Insider, Quartz, BGR, Softpedia, and Thought Catalog.
He currently resides in Bengaluru, India.