so I’m going to talk about something
that you not relate with dogs
everybody has their moment and everybody
has their their own way of finding
wisdom so there’s wisdom but there’s
also the idea of success what does it
mean to be successful it for me man I
could just go and buy a car and I was so
crazy about them that I had twenty of
them by the time I’m 35 years old I had
the same number of very expensive
watches I would travel the whole world
and this is what everybody thinks of
success in so I thought that I was
successful Hill when I rescued my first
dog and then my focus suddenly shifted
from trying to rescue myself and being
successful and so that’s how the idea of
VO is he started he started on certain
promises I want to do something which is
different first is scale so you can see
some stature for years I have 750 dogs
that live with me right now
seven thousand dogs rescues spinal
surgery artificial tendons their life
long and care for a renal failure for
liver failure for cardiac failure that
means then they are given medication
every day two times and if you stop
they’ll die to start doing rescue we
created a fleet of vehicles we created
software I can track a dog from the time
that is picked up I digitized all that
information that the prescriptions the
doctors write and I can pump it out to
anybody who reported about the talk
real-time it’s all developed in-house
sixty of my dogs come from Bombay
these dogs have been driven from Bombay
to Bangalore because they couldn’t find
a home because I have a place
I will never refuse it all so we created
her so it created a system which the
world has kind of never seen when I give
infuse when I talk to people they have
never seen a dog rescue which is of that
scale and it operates on those
principles no-kill in outside of India
it’s a very big thing there’s a no-kill
shelter but not only no kill we will
never refuse a dog but did you know that
dogs is a mafia
because the Municipal Corporations
across India give out contracts for
birth control and so this is a story
about what happens when very powerful
people and people who have very vicious
get after you the first thing that
happened was to attack me suddenly I
started getting a whole slew of police
complaints and so there are different
jurisdictions within Bangalore that the
cops started calling me and saying there
is a complaint against you against some
section 428 animal cruelty 350 for
attempting to outrace the modesty of a
woman there are some strange things
happening no idea max what are you
talking about now I’ve never gone to a
bully station in my life it all starts
coming together because one day the cops
come to my house in clean clothes
without a warrant enter the house and
I’ve just had a shower because I just
come back from from my trauma centre and
they dragged me out and they arrest me
and take me to the police station so
here I am the I who’s this P take em
glaze I you know the biggest companies
in the world of my customers in I’m not
a police station on a charge of
outraging the modesty of woman I have
never seen or met or heard from ever in
my life this is the second time that the
same person has made the complaint in
different police station not only that
the next two days the front page of the
Bangalore Mirror newspaper has my
picture front and center
this is the guy who did that the copy of
that fi are within 24 hours is with
every customer of mine
nobody wants pot to me and this person
who first put this charge and said to me
then you closed down VOD and I will take
the plane back
and I have like a few minutes to make
that decision and I already had at that
time about 300 hot dogs talk about three
years back to the day I should know I
can’t I can’t release the dogs and I
can’t close down via will be and
Scheepers resistant to complain it’s a
very serious charge and I had to
eventually get bail after do this so the
first line of attack was me the second
was what was causing Leo’s need to be
different successful because typically
in NGO works shoestring budgets I’ll
create large scalable systems because
you don’t have the money B you don’t
have management expertise and we brought
both to the table because if you can
create one kind of an enterprise you can
create another kind of an enterprise and
so the best way to finish off viewers
days to finish off DWP and that is also
kind of not so difficult so I it turns
out that the two three months that I was
running from pillar to post to get
myself out of this situation
and the reason I’m able to speak about
that situation is because when the final
charge sheet was presented by the least
of the court at c-54 and all that jazz
that she said is not part of that
judgeship so of course anomaly but three
months that I was trying to figure my
way out of this people to first be OSD
problem my boss contact that problem was
at least I know today a couple of people
working with me very senior people they
were part of this program in one way or
the other
Billy MIDI I mean they chose to be or
they were co-opted I can’t really say at
this time
but I have very senior people who are
managing sales and marketing and and
delivery functions and for three months
we lose zero deliveries so there is a
multi-million dollar company which does
not make any deliveries at all and for
three months we get zero new customers
and for three months we get zero new
leads I went on from being this this
really valued different company to
having nothing in three months but ia
was not zero because now I had a debt of
the working capital of three months
which is many crores of rupees and I had
a liability which was many millions of
dollars and there was only one person
left in that company and that was me
everybody left you’ve heard about that
every scripture every story every
tragedy from the beginning of time tells
you that it when it is your bad time
it’s only you everybody will leave you
but people have a sense of infallibility
when soldiers go to war my father was a
soldier when soldiers go to war you go
because you think it’s not going to hit
you the first bullet that hits your body
it’s not the shock of dying the shock of
being hit because you can’t imagine
something’s gonna hit you because it
happens to other people it never happens
to you when it happens it’s just you and
I am living proof of that the third
attack was vos d and that’s in those
same three months my vet leaves and he’s
bought lakhs of rupees of supplies
remember the guy I told you who could go
into a good buy a car just on his car
actually had no money they have been
away and it’s a very lonely place and I
said everybody finds their own wisdom
under their own tree and so I was left
with this thing that where do I go and
what do I have and there are all these
thousands and thousands of animals that
I have saved so I ran back to the one
thing because like I said I understand
dogs like well and they understand me
very well so now I didn’t have any money
I didn’t have any friends I did nothing
but I had these dogs that had lived with
me for years and years and I went back
to creating the formula the math of my
comeback on what I had learned and that
is what I want to share with you
everybody knows the formula for success
is hard work is being intelligent and
being lucky timing is everything
well one chips are down you need
fortitude you need college the first
thing about dogs is leadership in their
society
there’s always leaders there’s always a
back they not just aimlessly walking
around and when they’re removed from
that back they will keep trying to find
a system in which they can belong they
can be the alpha male they can be a
similar dog but they look for an order
and at the same time they’re to do that
they’re very good judges of leadership
what I had was that the second thing
dogs are a very calm under pressure most
people when they come into a little
pressure he hit the roof squealing but a
dog when it’s his hit but 20 kg dogs hit
by a 40 kg 40 ton truck will he scream
and Yelp when his crushed off his body’s
crushed for precisely 30 seconds and
then he becomes very calm they not like
people you know keep screaming and
shouting if I broke somebody’s leg you
wouldn’t be able to walk two feet but a
dog on the road with that broken leg
will live the rest of his life
did I have a would I be common
depression I’m certainly that kind of a
person I know that for and they hunker
down when you have an insurmountable
challenge sometimes the only thing you
can do is to stand in that wave Dillard
process so then you can do something
else because I knew that everything that
I’m doing right now I have three years
to pass because the bank’s the the reef
Finance and everything I was the only
man left but Anna had this crores of
bills but I had three years in which to
pay the back so I knew one thing if I
hunker down and survive three years I
have a chance and dogs know that they
are alone you would be surprised about
how many dogs I have which are actually
paralyzed they’d run on two legs they
can chase on horse on two legs I’ve got
five horses too they will chase a horse
on two legs
you’ll never make out that there is
anything I’ve got any number of dogs
with three legs many dogs with only two
legs
maybe I was completely blind you’d never
make out this dog is blind you know
tremendous will to live they have
tremendous tenacity this tremendous
capacity to keep fighting and my chips
are down it’s not how smart you are and
I’m smarter not work well when that
cookie crumbles you need a different set
of skills and these are those skills
then a city college you have the courage
to get up every day and do this job like
I said they’re ace fighters they have no
sense of self pity I have never seen a
dog would say oh my god why did it
happen to me they don’t have a sense of
self that’s a great thing but they do
certainly don’t have any sense of self
pity and that’s the worst thing we do to
ourselves when you when you find a
difficult situation you like what
happened to me
what are we wrong and it’s not that I
have never asked myself this question
many many times but the answer was not
just asking you to itself repetitively
the answer was somewhere else like hey
this guy doesn’t think like that
why am i there he because he looks at me
and says I’m the boss I’m his father
there is about solving problems they
have tremendous sense from solving and
not a problem to solve now you have many
millions of dollars to repay you have
nobody know other people and you have to
create a new system which you cannot
invest in
I can’t invest money anymore now all
those cars that I told you about I sold
everything I sold all my houses
I sold all the jewelry
everything I have nothing else to sell
anymore or to get any access to finance
I have the bank’s had closed my personal
accounts have no credit card I still
don’t have a car it’s been three years
and they have a tremendous amount
demanded threshold of pain I’ve had the
dog I have a dog which was tied to a
railway to railway track with a chain to
be killed there are people of all all
all kinds and when the train came the
dog tried to withdraw from the Train
and he cut both his front legs
both positive if that happened to a
person you die in the shop
later but when the chain went over him
the Train also cut the chain and without
his front two legs he’s still trying to
make a run for it
that’s the 42 dogs I have to ask myself
this my pain is nothing compared to the
pain that they feel I have a finite time
if I can make through I think the most
of one thing here is trust because when
you stop trusting I came to a place
where I could not just anybody or
anything but when you stop trusting you
cannot judge a situation for what you
read what it really is were the people
who can really help you and they really
want to be there for you for the reason
they’re that they like you if you lose
that sense you’re really truly alone
then and there if you get to that point
there’s nothing that can save you
because no man can fire the world only
by himself or self nobody can do that
and dogs exhibit that real quality
because I get so many dogs every week
which are they have been abused they
have all the reason not to trust a
person ever again
and the only thing I do with them is let
them be and sooner or later they will
wag their tails and come to me everybody
asked me that question why do they why
do they come to you I said I don’t do
anything I should let them be and then
known this he loves me he’s gonna fight
for me they trust me that’s all there is
and I have to do the same thing find
some people I could trust so you can’t
be blind to them the number one quality
if you want to be successful
is delayed gratification the ability to
I had to get up and start working so
here’s what I’ve been doing for the last
three years and as VOD and twe both come
back we open office recently in the
United States we hired our CEO there
that is Twp I retired all the debt if
you look at at the media anything is
full of what vo as he does but more
importantly I added three and fifty dogs
in this time that I had nothing because
I just would not give up interestingly
there is something called vo SD for
people where we give education health
care for children and families around us
in one year we teach between 1,500 to
2,000 children free and all that has
happened in this time that I had my back
to the wall somebody once asked me what
what are you doing right now in this
time not that they really cared for the
answer but they asked me nevertheless
and I remember telling them I’m like I’m
a dog I’m licking my wounds I’ll be back
that’s what dogs do they hunker down and
they leave their homes and more recently
in an interview somebody asked me so you
fought like a lime I said no I fought
like a talk
I remember success the first thing I
said success successful me does not mean
those things that it used to if you get
up in the morning and you can fill the
day doing the thing that you love that
is being successful
thank you
[Applause]
that you not relate with dogs
everybody has their moment and everybody
has their their own way of finding
wisdom so there’s wisdom but there’s
also the idea of success what does it
mean to be successful it for me man I
could just go and buy a car and I was so
crazy about them that I had twenty of
them by the time I’m 35 years old I had
the same number of very expensive
watches I would travel the whole world
and this is what everybody thinks of
success in so I thought that I was
successful Hill when I rescued my first
dog and then my focus suddenly shifted
from trying to rescue myself and being
successful and so that’s how the idea of
VO is he started he started on certain
promises I want to do something which is
different first is scale so you can see
some stature for years I have 750 dogs
that live with me right now
seven thousand dogs rescues spinal
surgery artificial tendons their life
long and care for a renal failure for
liver failure for cardiac failure that
means then they are given medication
every day two times and if you stop
they’ll die to start doing rescue we
created a fleet of vehicles we created
software I can track a dog from the time
that is picked up I digitized all that
information that the prescriptions the
doctors write and I can pump it out to
anybody who reported about the talk
real-time it’s all developed in-house
sixty of my dogs come from Bombay
these dogs have been driven from Bombay
to Bangalore because they couldn’t find
a home because I have a place
I will never refuse it all so we created
her so it created a system which the
world has kind of never seen when I give
infuse when I talk to people they have
never seen a dog rescue which is of that
scale and it operates on those
principles no-kill in outside of India
it’s a very big thing there’s a no-kill
shelter but not only no kill we will
never refuse a dog but did you know that
dogs is a mafia
because the Municipal Corporations
across India give out contracts for
birth control and so this is a story
about what happens when very powerful
people and people who have very vicious
get after you the first thing that
happened was to attack me suddenly I
started getting a whole slew of police
complaints and so there are different
jurisdictions within Bangalore that the
cops started calling me and saying there
is a complaint against you against some
section 428 animal cruelty 350 for
attempting to outrace the modesty of a
woman there are some strange things
happening no idea max what are you
talking about now I’ve never gone to a
bully station in my life it all starts
coming together because one day the cops
come to my house in clean clothes
without a warrant enter the house and
I’ve just had a shower because I just
come back from from my trauma centre and
they dragged me out and they arrest me
and take me to the police station so
here I am the I who’s this P take em
glaze I you know the biggest companies
in the world of my customers in I’m not
a police station on a charge of
outraging the modesty of woman I have
never seen or met or heard from ever in
my life this is the second time that the
same person has made the complaint in
different police station not only that
the next two days the front page of the
Bangalore Mirror newspaper has my
picture front and center
this is the guy who did that the copy of
that fi are within 24 hours is with
every customer of mine
nobody wants pot to me and this person
who first put this charge and said to me
then you closed down VOD and I will take
the plane back
and I have like a few minutes to make
that decision and I already had at that
time about 300 hot dogs talk about three
years back to the day I should know I
can’t I can’t release the dogs and I
can’t close down via will be and
Scheepers resistant to complain it’s a
very serious charge and I had to
eventually get bail after do this so the
first line of attack was me the second
was what was causing Leo’s need to be
different successful because typically
in NGO works shoestring budgets I’ll
create large scalable systems because
you don’t have the money B you don’t
have management expertise and we brought
both to the table because if you can
create one kind of an enterprise you can
create another kind of an enterprise and
so the best way to finish off viewers
days to finish off DWP and that is also
kind of not so difficult so I it turns
out that the two three months that I was
running from pillar to post to get
myself out of this situation
and the reason I’m able to speak about
that situation is because when the final
charge sheet was presented by the least
of the court at c-54 and all that jazz
that she said is not part of that
judgeship so of course anomaly but three
months that I was trying to figure my
way out of this people to first be OSD
problem my boss contact that problem was
at least I know today a couple of people
working with me very senior people they
were part of this program in one way or
the other
Billy MIDI I mean they chose to be or
they were co-opted I can’t really say at
this time
but I have very senior people who are
managing sales and marketing and and
delivery functions and for three months
we lose zero deliveries so there is a
multi-million dollar company which does
not make any deliveries at all and for
three months we get zero new customers
and for three months we get zero new
leads I went on from being this this
really valued different company to
having nothing in three months but ia
was not zero because now I had a debt of
the working capital of three months
which is many crores of rupees and I had
a liability which was many millions of
dollars and there was only one person
left in that company and that was me
everybody left you’ve heard about that
every scripture every story every
tragedy from the beginning of time tells
you that it when it is your bad time
it’s only you everybody will leave you
but people have a sense of infallibility
when soldiers go to war my father was a
soldier when soldiers go to war you go
because you think it’s not going to hit
you the first bullet that hits your body
it’s not the shock of dying the shock of
being hit because you can’t imagine
something’s gonna hit you because it
happens to other people it never happens
to you when it happens it’s just you and
I am living proof of that the third
attack was vos d and that’s in those
same three months my vet leaves and he’s
bought lakhs of rupees of supplies
remember the guy I told you who could go
into a good buy a car just on his car
actually had no money they have been
away and it’s a very lonely place and I
said everybody finds their own wisdom
under their own tree and so I was left
with this thing that where do I go and
what do I have and there are all these
thousands and thousands of animals that
I have saved so I ran back to the one
thing because like I said I understand
dogs like well and they understand me
very well so now I didn’t have any money
I didn’t have any friends I did nothing
but I had these dogs that had lived with
me for years and years and I went back
to creating the formula the math of my
comeback on what I had learned and that
is what I want to share with you
everybody knows the formula for success
is hard work is being intelligent and
being lucky timing is everything
well one chips are down you need
fortitude you need college the first
thing about dogs is leadership in their
society
there’s always leaders there’s always a
back they not just aimlessly walking
around and when they’re removed from
that back they will keep trying to find
a system in which they can belong they
can be the alpha male they can be a
similar dog but they look for an order
and at the same time they’re to do that
they’re very good judges of leadership
what I had was that the second thing
dogs are a very calm under pressure most
people when they come into a little
pressure he hit the roof squealing but a
dog when it’s his hit but 20 kg dogs hit
by a 40 kg 40 ton truck will he scream
and Yelp when his crushed off his body’s
crushed for precisely 30 seconds and
then he becomes very calm they not like
people you know keep screaming and
shouting if I broke somebody’s leg you
wouldn’t be able to walk two feet but a
dog on the road with that broken leg
will live the rest of his life
did I have a would I be common
depression I’m certainly that kind of a
person I know that for and they hunker
down when you have an insurmountable
challenge sometimes the only thing you
can do is to stand in that wave Dillard
process so then you can do something
else because I knew that everything that
I’m doing right now I have three years
to pass because the bank’s the the reef
Finance and everything I was the only
man left but Anna had this crores of
bills but I had three years in which to
pay the back so I knew one thing if I
hunker down and survive three years I
have a chance and dogs know that they
are alone you would be surprised about
how many dogs I have which are actually
paralyzed they’d run on two legs they
can chase on horse on two legs I’ve got
five horses too they will chase a horse
on two legs
you’ll never make out that there is
anything I’ve got any number of dogs
with three legs many dogs with only two
legs
maybe I was completely blind you’d never
make out this dog is blind you know
tremendous will to live they have
tremendous tenacity this tremendous
capacity to keep fighting and my chips
are down it’s not how smart you are and
I’m smarter not work well when that
cookie crumbles you need a different set
of skills and these are those skills
then a city college you have the courage
to get up every day and do this job like
I said they’re ace fighters they have no
sense of self pity I have never seen a
dog would say oh my god why did it
happen to me they don’t have a sense of
self that’s a great thing but they do
certainly don’t have any sense of self
pity and that’s the worst thing we do to
ourselves when you when you find a
difficult situation you like what
happened to me
what are we wrong and it’s not that I
have never asked myself this question
many many times but the answer was not
just asking you to itself repetitively
the answer was somewhere else like hey
this guy doesn’t think like that
why am i there he because he looks at me
and says I’m the boss I’m his father
there is about solving problems they
have tremendous sense from solving and
not a problem to solve now you have many
millions of dollars to repay you have
nobody know other people and you have to
create a new system which you cannot
invest in
I can’t invest money anymore now all
those cars that I told you about I sold
everything I sold all my houses
I sold all the jewelry
everything I have nothing else to sell
anymore or to get any access to finance
I have the bank’s had closed my personal
accounts have no credit card I still
don’t have a car it’s been three years
and they have a tremendous amount
demanded threshold of pain I’ve had the
dog I have a dog which was tied to a
railway to railway track with a chain to
be killed there are people of all all
all kinds and when the train came the
dog tried to withdraw from the Train
and he cut both his front legs
both positive if that happened to a
person you die in the shop
later but when the chain went over him
the Train also cut the chain and without
his front two legs he’s still trying to
make a run for it
that’s the 42 dogs I have to ask myself
this my pain is nothing compared to the
pain that they feel I have a finite time
if I can make through I think the most
of one thing here is trust because when
you stop trusting I came to a place
where I could not just anybody or
anything but when you stop trusting you
cannot judge a situation for what you
read what it really is were the people
who can really help you and they really
want to be there for you for the reason
they’re that they like you if you lose
that sense you’re really truly alone
then and there if you get to that point
there’s nothing that can save you
because no man can fire the world only
by himself or self nobody can do that
and dogs exhibit that real quality
because I get so many dogs every week
which are they have been abused they
have all the reason not to trust a
person ever again
and the only thing I do with them is let
them be and sooner or later they will
wag their tails and come to me everybody
asked me that question why do they why
do they come to you I said I don’t do
anything I should let them be and then
known this he loves me he’s gonna fight
for me they trust me that’s all there is
and I have to do the same thing find
some people I could trust so you can’t
be blind to them the number one quality
if you want to be successful
is delayed gratification the ability to
I had to get up and start working so
here’s what I’ve been doing for the last
three years and as VOD and twe both come
back we open office recently in the
United States we hired our CEO there
that is Twp I retired all the debt if
you look at at the media anything is
full of what vo as he does but more
importantly I added three and fifty dogs
in this time that I had nothing because
I just would not give up interestingly
there is something called vo SD for
people where we give education health
care for children and families around us
in one year we teach between 1,500 to
2,000 children free and all that has
happened in this time that I had my back
to the wall somebody once asked me what
what are you doing right now in this
time not that they really cared for the
answer but they asked me nevertheless
and I remember telling them I’m like I’m
a dog I’m licking my wounds I’ll be back
that’s what dogs do they hunker down and
they leave their homes and more recently
in an interview somebody asked me so you
fought like a lime I said no I fought
like a talk
I remember success the first thing I
said success successful me does not mean
those things that it used to if you get
up in the morning and you can fill the
day doing the thing that you love that
is being successful
thank you
[Applause]
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