Know How The US Returned Engineer Raised 30 Crores Business Empire With Just 1 Lakh Rupees

Aravind Arasavilli left his high-paid job at Globus University in Minnesota, the USA at the age of 26 and returned to his hometown of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh to start a visa training and support company abroad for Rs 1 lakh. in 2012. Nine years later, he owns two companies with a combined turnover of Rs 30 crores and a salary of 170 people.

Aravind after completing his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering (in Vijayawada), decided to study for an MBA in the US to gain practical experience in general management and develop his leadership skills, He is categorized as a first-generation entrepreneur.

He received a 65 lakhs education loan for his MBA abroad. He earned a degree an MBA from the Minnesota Business School in 2009 and then worked at Globus University as an International Admissions Officer from 2010 to 2012 with a salary of $ 40,000 per year (then approximately 20 lakhs). He repaid his education loan over the next five years from his income.

Experienced as a US Admission Consultant, he returned to India in 2012 and founded his first company, Exella Education Group LLC, a foreign educational consulting firm in Vijayawada.

Excella helped students apply to enroll in some of the best foreign colleges and look for work after completing the course. The company also assisted students in obtaining scholarships.

In the beginning, he started with a single room office. There was no work for the first seven months. They go to the office and return home without clients. But things got better and the business with mouth marketing start coming. 

At the present time, he has offices in Telangana, USA, and Andhra Pradesh. His company processes around 5,000 applications each year and over 100 students are admitted to a foreign university.”

There is a service charge of $ 100 for each requester. They pay $ 1,000 for premium customers and offer additional support.

The company takes care of these clients even though they don't have time today. Around advises the student, guides them through the application writing process and also prepares them for life in a foreign country." His first company with an ongoing annual report. turnover of SEK 5.

Aravind founded his second company Param Technologies Inc. in Minneapolis, USA in 2015 from a rented apartment, which until then had been his home in the United States and was also the US office of his educational advisor.

Later, he discovered that cloud computing is booming with DevOps technology. He contacted small businesses in and around Minneapolis and explained to them the benefits of cloud technology over in-store storage servers.

As a result, he received positive feedback from local companies, he has started receiving job orders to build cloud computing systems in business. "

They soon entered into contracts with Best Buy, one of the largest electronics retailers in the United States, Chase Bank, and Walmart և Krogers.

In the beginning, when he started in 2015, he works as an accountant in his company, because he didn’t have the money to hire people. But today he pays employees $ 120,000 a month (about 85 million rubles) per month.

Turnover of the first company in 2015–2016 It was $ 40,000, but today it has grown to about $ 300,000 a month, or 25 million rubles a year.

During the pandemic, the company continued to grow and hired new employees.

"We started working with six employees in Canada six months ago. Another office will be opened in Mexico by the end of the year," said Aravind, who focuses on cloud computing.

Aravind's father, Ramesh Arasavili, began his career as a bank employee and recently retired as a manager. He and his wife the Padma gave their children the best education. Aravind has a younger sister, Deepika, who is now a software engineer.

Aravind was raised in Vijayawada, but the family moved to Delhi at the age of about nine after his father moved there. As his father moved to new places every three years, he had the opportunity to study in different cities.

"I was in fourth or fifth grade in Delhi, where I learned Hindi. Later, I spent six or seven grades in Nagpur, where I learned Marathi." Knowing these languages ​​helps me even now, ”says Aravind.

The family later returned to Vijayawada and completed 12th grade at St John’s Public School in 2003 and B Tech in industrial engineering from KL College of Engineering.

With offices in India and the United States, Aravind travels frequently between the two countries.

Aravind's close friends are Autobiographies and Bhagwad Gita. He read a lot and tries to finish one book a week. The autobiography of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, which I read in 2015, was a great inspiration to him to build such a huge business empire.