His six-month-old son couldn’t breathe. So Madhusudhan Anand set out on a mission to help the world breathe better. This is his #RiseWithupGrad story.
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00:00That was sort of my life's calling that this is a massive global problem that needs solving.
00:26The very cool thing about computer programming was that I could build something that would
00:31solve a particular problem or create something else.
00:57I kept learning all throughout and the more I learned, I started growing out of my role.
01:03Often times I found myself I could do a lot more bigger impact.
01:13I used to wake up in the middle of the night coughing, choking, would struggle to breathe.
01:20So the doctors were unable to decide what's going on until one of them pointed out that it could be the air.
01:28I'm tackling a large global social problem.
01:48How do you measure air quality street by street, near real time, across the world?
01:53Once you do something, how do you have a scientific community accept that data is valid and accurate?
02:08Not only I learned a research methodology, today I've created the same process at Ambi, where every product of Ambi is an outcome of research.
02:17We're also India's first granular pollen data. India never had pollen data and it's an outcome of research.
02:23It's not just a paper or a dissertation I wrote to complete my master's, but in fact it is actually a product that is being used by millions of users.
02:48I found my answers in this course that I took.
02:53Think 10x of how can I be 10x, a better version of me?
03:07It is sort of a process where you have to unlearn your old ways and create and develop new habits so you can learn the new things.
03:14It is only continuous learning that will help you keep going forward.