THE POWER OF A DREAM THAT GREW BYTE BY BYTE

Brick By Brick — From Middle-Class Roots to Entrepreneurial Success — A Road Map to Dream, Build and Succeed is an autobiographical account of how author Manish Vij invaded the world of business, his roller-coaster ride in the newly emerging digital domains and the peaks he has conquered since. In telling his story, the Managing Partner of the venture capital fund, the Smile Group, inadvertently also maps the evolution of technology-driven enterprises in India, ending each chapter with 'Actionable Insights' for newcomers to the club of tech startups

- By Madhumita Chakraborty

MANISH VIJ is what is fashionably known as a “serial entrepreneur” in business parlance. In the introductory chapter of his book Brick By Brick — From Middle-Class Roots to Entrepreneurial Success — A Road Map to Dream, Build and Succeed, the author attempts to justify writing another book on entrepreneurship. In the racy chapters that follow, the reader is convinced over and over again of the need for it and for more stories from the same domain of impetuous young technology entrepreneurs who reached for the stars and often caught some.

Age of Technology

This rather compact narrative of a couple of hundred pages lands on the shelves of book stores in a year in which a mega event like the inauguration of the President of the United States of America, saw technology entrepreneurs crowd out brick-and-mortar tycoons at St. John's Church in January.

The internet was flooded with images of the star cast of the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook and others of their ilk like Google chief Sunder Pichai stealing the limelight, even though other industry behemoths like the Tesla Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk were also present. The world today indubitably lives in the age of technology.