Vishwajeet Vishnu’s journey isn’t built on privilege, pedigree, or perfect timing. It’s built on persistence.
Forced to drop out of college after 12th grade due to financial hardship, Vishwajeet entered the workforce early and educated himself the hard way through books, workshops, lived experience, and relentless curiosity. Over the years, he read hundreds of books and sought mentors to avoid mistakes he couldn’t afford to make.
Before finding his true calling, he tried and failed at 7 to 8 different businesses: call centers, restaurants, cab services, coaching ventures, and more. Each failure looked like a dead end at the time. In hindsight, they became his training ground.
His breakthrough came accidentally when he entered the hearing-care industry. What started as exposure through a family connection turned into a life mission after he witnessed, firsthand, how restoring hearing transformed lives. For the first time, entrepreneurship wasn’t about survival or money—it was about impact.
Fifteen turbulent years later, Vishwajeet leads a multi-country hearing-care organization, operates with systems instead of chaos, spends most of his time on strategy rather than firefighting, and has even fulfilled a lifelong dream—attending his first-ever classroom lecture at Harvard Business School.
His story isn’t extraordinary because he’s exceptional. It’s extraordinary because he isn’t.
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