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Former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly Becomes Influencer on LinkedIn

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Former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly Becomes Influencer on LinkedIn

10 years after his retirement from Cricket, Sourav Ganguly, former captain of the Indian National team joined LinkedIn on Monday as a LinkedIn Influencer, a program that comprises of 500+ leaders, thinkers, and forerunners of multiple industries and platforms. Ganguly is only the second Indian cricketer to join the platform after legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s debut on the professional social network in 2017. In spite not being able to play in the IPL this year, Ganguly is now featuring alongside some very famous names such Narendra Modi, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Priyanka Chopra, Oprah Winfrey, Justin Trudeau, Sachin Tendulkar in a totally different league. He will be sharing thoughts that he believes will help the members of the platform stay one-step ahead of their time and motivate...

Sourav Ganguly Shows Interest in Startup Ecosystem, Invests in Flickstree

Former Indian Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly has recently showed his interest in startups by investing an amount of around $464,000 ( Rs 3 crore) in a Mumbai-based entertainment company- Flickstree. Besides him, Kolkata-based Aditya Group’s Anirban Aditya and Ankit Aditya, and Moksh Sports Ventures were the main participants in the round. Flickstree is a tech-entertainment company, started by Saurabh Singh, Rahul Jain and Nagender Sangra in 2014, officially launched in August 2016, and marks Ganguly's debut in startup investment. “Flickstree helps users follow their passion and create their personal video magazine. Such a model has the potential to change the way videos are consumed,” said Ganguly. The platform compiles free-to-watch online videos from social network, media-s...

Sourav Ganguly will host Bengal’s first entrepreneurship based reality show

The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is well known for his television show Dadagiri and now become the face of an upcoming Bengali business reality show Egiye Bangla - apni jokhon entrepreneur. The request came from none other than Chief minister of Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee. The show is being sponsored by Bengal government, as Mamata Banerjee wants to promote - Shilpo Karun, Bangla Gorun and for that small entrepreneurs are now being focused to create jobs. (more…)