Vikas Kedia

Vikas Kedia is a Nevada based serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and engineering technologist.
Early life and education
Vikas Kedia was born in Kolkata on 25 October 1977. He graduated from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi. He finished MBA from IIM-Bangalore in 2000. During his MBA he represented India at the Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, sponsored by Stanford University. He graduated on the merit list and at the age of 21 he was offered a $100,000-a-year job, which he declined
Early career
He started a software company to detect click fraud that showed a lot of potential at the beginning. However, it could not sustain the growth for long. Soon it ran out of initial funding and investors decided to stop further investment. Thus he had to close the company. After this he did research on peer to peer knowledge exchange and Ad-Hoc processing of data passing through internet backbone routers sponsored by [http://en. .org/wiki/AT%26T_Labs AT&T research labs].
Ad-Hoc processing of data
He open sourced most of the results of his research on PADS as a realtime network graphing software.
Peer to peer knowledge exchange
Based on his work in peer to peer knowledge exchange at Stanford University, he established a debt community in 2003. This debt community became the largest debt community in America. This community in 2013 was helping over 1% of american population each month with their debt problems. This community had 80,992 Threads, 564,118 Posts and 472,139 Members.
In 2005 he started a mortgage community. The mortgage community went on to become the last mortgage community in America. He refused to sell the community in 2010 for 2 million dollars offered by quinstreet.
Contributions
He donated 10 million INR at the age of 34 to his alma mater IIMB to start IIMB Kite (Kedia initiative to teach exponentially).

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