Farrhad Acidwalla

Farrhad Acidwalla
Born	(1993-11-16) November 16, 1993 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Alma mater	Bombay Scottish School, Mahim
Website
www.farrhad.com

Farrhad Acidwalla (born 16 November 1993) is an Indian entrepreneur, investor and motivational speaker. He started off as one of the world's youngest entrepreneurs and Rockstah Media was the first company he founded. ^[1]

Biographical Sketch

Farrhad Acidwalla was born in Pune is from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He finished his schooling from Bombay Scottish School, Mahim and graduated from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai.

At the age of 12, he started an aviation website and venture into more internet businesses. Then in 2009 he founded a company called Rockstah Media.

Farrhad has been featured in a book on the world's top 25 entrepreneurs under the age of 25.

In 2011, CNN Money featured Farrhad as a young entrepreneur to watch.^[2]

India TV listed Farrhad as one of the "Most promising young Indian entrepreneurs of 2012". ^[3]

In April 2013, Yahoo! Lifestyle featured Farrhad 6th on the list of Top 10 Best Dressed Male Entrepreneurs in India. ^[4]

In March 2014, The Telegraph featured Farrhad second on the list of "25 internet success stories aged 25 and under". ^[5]

Guest Lectures

In 2014, Farrhad was invited to speak at:

IIT Kharagpur's Global Entrepreneurship Summit^[6]
NIT Durgapur's Aarohan
NIT Raipur's Aawartan

In January 2015, Farrhad was invited to give a guest lecture at IIT Patna's annual techno-cultural fest, Anwesha.^[7]

Farrhad was recently invited to speak at the orientation and welcome of the new batch of freshers at IIT Jodhpur.

On 1st November 2015 Farrhad was invited as a guest lecture to the north India's biggest Techno-Cultural fest PECFEST at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.

References

CNN Interview -
The Times Of India. Article by M Irani', November 7, 2009.
Pune Mirror. Article by A Tyagi', June 28, 2009.
Article by A. L. Sawai', July 12, 2009.
Official Company Website.
CNN IBN. .
What It Takes To Make More Money Than Your Parents (Book) -

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