Language English, Tamil, Hindi | Nationality Indian | |
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Born 7 May 1983 (age 33)
Chennai, India ( 1983-05-07 ) Genre History, Knowledge, Economics, Politics, India Notable works From Tryst to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India Education University of Maryland, Balti County, Babson College |
Why we need students to make rather than learn balaji viswanathan tedxnittrichy
Balaji Viswanathan (Tamil:பாலாஜி விஸ்வநாதன்; Devanāgarī: बालाजी विश्वनाथन); is an Indian writer, author, entrepreneur and engineer who presently lives in Bengaluru. He is popularly known for his answers and posts on the question-and-answer site Quora. He has been the top-writer (on Quora) of the year(s) 2013, 2014, 2015 2016 and 2017 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
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- Why we need students to make rather than learn balaji viswanathan tedxnittrichy
- innovative methods of learning balaji viswanathan invento
- Career
- Quora
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Career
Balaji is the founder of NalandaU, CEO & co-founder of Be Limtless Inc and Zingfin.com. He joined Microsoft after graduation as Software Design Engineer. Presently, he is the VP of products at Invento and product manager at Black Duck Software.
Quora

Balaji has written more than 3,516 answers and has 271,026 followers on Quora as of February 19th, 2017, which makes him the most followed person on Quora. 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.

