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Entrepreneur Background

Ananda Krishnan is one of the Malaysian business man. he estimated have a net worth of USD 7.9
billion according to Forbes annual list among the wealthiest people, and making him to the second
wealthiest in malaysia and ranked 129th in the world.

Ananda Krishnan born in 1938 in Brickfields,Kuala Lumpur, who were origin from Sri Lankan .Ananda
Krishnan finish his studies in Vivekananda Tamil school atBrickfields,Kuala Lumpur and continue his
further studies at Victoria Institution,Kuala Lumpur.Thenfinally he attended the University of
Melbourne,Australia for continue his B.A. (Honours) degree majoring in political science with used
support of Colombo Plan scholar.In that time he boarded in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn.Ananda
Krishnan obtained Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.And finally he
graduated in 1964.Ananda Krishnan has 3 child, they are 2 daughters and 1 son.

Ananda Krishnan's business acheivement were begin with in oil industry.He was an initial an oil
merchant and his essential endeavor was Exoil Trading, an organization which managed in oil
exchanging concessions.Then he proceeded onward to get hold greatest correspondence organization
named Maxis communication.Maxis correspondence holds the Malaysia number one cellular telephone
administration supplier boosting more than 11 million subscribers.His current private
company,Usahategas were holds in Tanjong Public Limited Company.He was the chief of state oil
monster Petronas and was a position of safety of the focal bank,BankNegara,between 1982 one who
offering the thought of building the Petronas Twin Tower In the mid 1990s to the previous Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad.Currently,he has business premiums amusement (Astro), space (3
satelites), oil, influence, shipping, information transfers (Maxis in malaysia and aircell in India).Quarter
of his riches is originating from betting business which comprise a considerable measure of lottery and
stallion racing.Ananda Krishnan make his progress in business as well as add to the philanthropy and
foundations.He has give as much RM160 millions for giving creating and training oppurtunities to
bumiputera and non bumiputeramalaysia.

Ananda Krishnan buy out maxis and take into private because of maxis did not gave any reason for the
buyout plan but industry analyst are speculating that Ananda Krishnan might want to upgrade maxis to
overseas and raise foreign capital.AnandaKrishnan controlled firm Usaha Tegas,a mainshare holder in
Maxis,has notified the company that it and its affiliates will make an offer.

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2. Company Background

I. ASTRO

Astro is a brand name of Malaysian direct show satellite paid TV service.Astrotransmitses

computerized satellite TV and radio to family units in Malaysia and Brunei.Astro is an acronym for all
Asian satellite TV and radio operator.Astro was claimed and worked under MEASAT telecast system
systems.AnandaKrishnan,who was issued and make a substantial a permit in 1995 to work
MEASAT.MEASAT in a turn dispatches ASTRO, malaysia's advanced direct show satellite
service.Ananda Krishnan is quite a while individual from the wide of the bank negara and works his
Malaysia sports Toto.He is likewise assessed with a total assets USD 7.4 billion.Malaysia's exclusive
radio stations display comparative examples, for example, TV, and its essentially controlled under
Ananda Krishnan.Ananda Krishnan additionally control everywhere throughout the telecom
organization BbinariangBhd, that possesses by two satellite Measat 1 and 2 Maxis correspondences
Berhad.After the fundamental dispatch of the MEASAT-1 satellite as a component of Malaysia's
business of space,Astro started TV in 1996 with an underlying bundle of 22 TV and 8 radio
channels,which were runned by its own particular stations.

II. MAXIS

Maxis berhad is one of the huge telecommunication service provider in malaysia.They were providing
communication products and service for consumers.Maxis launchesmalaysia first LTE network
compared to other countries.Maxis provided high speed internet.Thisis one of the largest internet
connection in malaysia.Through their membership withmaxiz and astro, now they offer such as fibre
internet packages .The majority of the company stake is owned by TatpranandamAnanda Krishnan and
the company has about 11,6 million subscribers.Maxis acquired timecel, a rival mobile service
provider,fromtimedotcomberhad.

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3. Achievements

Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan born in 1983 is a one of the Malaysian well known businessman and
philanthropist.Ananda Krishnan estimated to have his net worth USD9.6 billion according to latest
Forbes annual list among wealthiest people in malaysia,and making him the second wealthiest
persomin Southeast Asia after Robert Kuok, and number 89 among other wealthiest people in the
world.

Ananda Krishnan’s first entrepreneurial step was started at Kuala Lumpur consultancy MAI
Holdings.Ananda Krishnan set up those ExoilTrading,forpurchase oil-drilling concessions in other
countries.Then, he grew up with gambling in Malaysia. In the early 1990s, Ananda Krishnan were
started step his leg into multimedia arena. Currently, Krishnan has business interest which leads into
entertainment, satellite television (Astro), shipping (Bumi Armada), and telecommunications (Maxis,
Aircel).

Ananda Krishnan affected his purchase of 46 percentage of Maxis Communications, the country’s
largest cellular phone company, from British Telecom.currentlyMaxis has more than 10 million
subscribers along malaysia,which leads and conquered 40 percentageof market share in
Malaysia.Now, Maxis has acquired and have a partnership withAircel, Tamil Nadu’s largest cellular
phone company.Those thingmake spread to rest of India. Maxis is under negotiation to buy over an
Indonesian cellular phone company.

Ananda Krishnan plans to produce TV channels that cater to the Indian market with In an agreement
between Astro and India’s Sun Network.Ananda also plans to offer televisyen services which leading
with featuring Web-Based interactivity.

Ananda is a one of the man who really loves to make properties under his name.Its proven by he has
owned 1,800 hectare Kia Ora property under his name.He loves to going on fishing trips on a his own
luxury yacht.

Ananda Krishnan is one oth man who are so energitic, daring, bold, shrewd, and she dare to face any
problem which makes his company face by it.Intelligent,vision,leadershipand entrepreneurial mindset
makes him to continue leading in the Malaysian's which in rich-list for many years.He has contributing
huge energy and his saving money for the charity foundations. Ananda Krishnan was donated RM160
millions towards developing and providing education opportunities only for Bumiputra in Malaysia to
make malaysia grew bigger and made some quality students for take over this countries in future.

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4. Challenged Faced

i. Why do you admire AnandhaKrishnan

The main reason that make me to admire on him is,Anandha Krishnan own his unique character and
values.Anandha Krishnan is a one of the polite man I nvr see before this. Ananda Krishnan family
members was maintain with a low profile.Im really admire with his humble and polite character which
makes others fall on him and follow with his character.

Ananda Krishnan is one of the legend which not too wellto understand even in his hometown
Malaysia.There are have too many good reasons. He is one of the second richestman in Malaysia.He
makes himself to grew up his property which lead to 93rd in Forbes list of billionaires.Not only that .
Anadha Krishnan always try to keep and show himself to be a low profile person in public, this
isbecause he grew up from low profilefamily.That is the only one reason why people always admire on
him and gives a lot of high respects for him.

Ii. First millions from oil

Ananda, alluded to associates as TAK from the initials of his full name Tatparanandam Ananda
Krishnan, proceeded onward from Harvard (Business School) and made his first millions as an oil
trader.He was a setting up official of state oil goliath Petronas and was a position of wellbeing head of
the national Bank Negara Malaysia some place around 1982 and 1987.He designed close ties with past
PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad (left), offering the pioneer the considered building the infamous 88-story
Petronas Twin Towers in the mid 1990s.Born to a Sri Lankan Tamil normal worker, Ananda now and
again appears.

Perhaps the main time he hit the spotlight, and that too quickly, was in the mid-1980s when he financed
the Live Aid show sorted out by rock star Bob Geldof.An enthusiastic authority of advanced
craftsmanship, Ananda invests his energy for the most part in the south of France with his wife and
youthful little girl, going to Kuala Lumpur occasionally.Media reports say the big shot's two other
youngsters from a first marriage are not excited about taking parts in his business domain. The child
turned into a friar and the little girl a specialist in Britain, the reports say.

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iii. The philosophy and the challenges faced by Anandha Krishnan

Ananda Krishnan has been unobtrusively started various deals.Ananda Krishnan have left spectators
baffled yet asserted him notoriety of being a perfect clock of markets.Ananda Krishnan is the man
whom surely understood in business circles, makes him again amidst a uber resource deal that is
covered in mystery until makes everybody speculating about the principle purpose of make this
deal.Ananda Krishnan nearing an offer of $3 billion (RM9.1 billion) worth of capable advantages for a
government,and he said that be peering toward the offer of a satellite administrator for around $500
million (RM1.5 billion).

As indicated by Forbes list,Ananda Krishnan was be slowing down for a considerable length of time in
charge of a business domain which traverses telecoms, gaming, property,and oil
exploration.Photographs of Ananda Krishnan are constantly put in the nation's daily papers, however
too numerous industry official and dealmakers, makes Ananda remains a riddle man. Large portions of
them trust that the deals are likely part of a key choice to pull once again from danger business

Ananda Krishnan, describe as a person whom Malaysia's second-wealthiest man,plans to procure

about $7 billion to save his buyout of Maxis Communications Bhd., the nation's most noteworthy cell
phone company.Sources close Krishnan said ABN Amro Holding is in chats with organize the financing.
The commitment would be supported by wages at Kuala Lumpur based Maxis.Krishnan takes after the
wealthiest individuals in Australia and New Zealand in taking full control of his guideline association
using techniques more by and large sent by buyout firms. Taking Maxis private would give Krishnan
exchange to drive advancement out all the more rapidly creating markets, for instance, India."There are
a couple points of interest for proprietors to take their endeavors private, incorporating not managing
shareholders," said Hugh Young, Singapore-based supervising official at Aberdeen Asset Management
Asia Ltd., which regulates $35 billion in the district, including Maxis offers.

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iv. Financial crisis

Ananda make offer holders by took most surely understood telecoms firm, for example, Maxis into
private in 2007 preceding the worldwide monetary emergency struck.That bargain solidified Ananda's
notoriety throughout the years for taking his organization into private and relisting them for make
greatest gain.Moreover,oil and gas administrations managed by organization Bumi Armada was
recorded in July.Ananda Krishnan stay stays under the radar that he never hold any official positions in
the four principle Malaysian organization that he controls and Ananda Krishnan said that to leave the
execution of his business methodologies and administration to trusted assistants, for example, Ralph
Marshall and Chan Chee Beng. Them two keep their position in executives of the secretly held Usaha
Tegas, Ananda's venture vehicle.

Ananda Krishnan scarcely to discover at gatherings and notwithstanding amid in the gatherings with his
nearby partership.Ananda Krishnan surely understood as an undetectable arrangement maker.This is
on the grounds that Ananda Krishnan is one of the man who will be touchy about nature of the
subject.Some of the speculators trust that Ananda krishnan could be tapping his present resources
because of political unpredictability in the Middle East and in front of national decisions in Malaysia
expected for the current year that could feed market instability.

Ananda Krishnan likewise confronting a ton of issues in India such india nation police have been
research one of his firm in a telecoms case.The interior rate of return that Ananda Krishnan getting from
some of his energy of own advantages may likewise not be lucrative, particularly with the issues
confronted in Egypt and Pakistan.

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v. How Anandha Krishnan overcome the challenges in his life

Ananda Krishnan loves to change, excitement and exitment. Ananda loves to be freedom such like a
bird which needs its wings to fly anywhere that its want but AnandaKrishnan cannot exist with wings
like a bird.Freedom describes one of the nucleus around Ananda Krishnan life .He needs freedom for
his survival after work or business stress.Ananda Krishnan able to develop and explore all of them by
himself with using varied talent that he have.Anandakrishnan meetsa huge types of people and have
been travel such a great distances. Freedom is one of the necessarything for Krishnan.

Ananda Krishnan has his own capability to do anything that what he thinks, and probably he is one of
the quite wellperson.Imprisonment of illusory security made him able to bring himself to forth
abilities.Krishnan likes to challenge and variety of problems.Moreover Ananda Krishnan hates the daily
life which is being stuck.

Ananda Krishnan dreams is to seeing foreign lands,experiencing the sensual andexotic.Ananda

Krishnan wants to try everything in the world at least once in his life.Ananda Krishnan fails to respect
natural limits,either biologically or socially.Ananda Krishnan has his own ability to communicate.He can
be a good salesman,politician,public relations person,minister and etc.AnandaKrishnan also possesses
his talent to share and identify advance new ideas for his business.He is one of the person who
talented with his bare hands. Ananda Krishnan always loves to be new and untried.Ananda Krishnan is
a gambler lover,which he often plays for very high stakes.Ananda Krishnan is a youthful enthusiasm,
which others find attractive from him Anandakrishnan likes to be work with others or partners.He is a
clever and a quick thinkertoo.Moreover he is one of men who can able think fast to solve the problem in
any situation.

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5. Entrpreneur Behaviour

What can you learn from Ananda Krishnan

Based the concept I learn in APT2013 entrepreneurial behaviour, there are a lot of things i can emulate
from Ananda Krishnan.Heposses original leadership and his own ability to collect greattreasure.Ananda
Krishnan got a lot of great talent for hismanagement,particularly in financial and business
matters.Ananda Krishnan is a visionary man that I ever seen in my life before this.Those around
Ananda Krishnan need his leadership,inspiration, and his support.Krishnan needs to put them into
direct and action them along the path of in his vision.Ananda Krishnan draws financial success from his
own business more than any other.His challenge in life is to achieve a high level of detachment, to
realize that power and influence have to be use for their benefit, human kind.He also has the character
and agility of a real survivor.Its is not common for someone with Ananda Krishnan life path to make
experience major setbacks, and including bankruptcies financial failures but Ananda Krishnan also has
a lot of talent that sheer guts to make more than one fortune, and build many successful ventures.He is
normally attracted with positions of power and leadership, politics, social work, and teaching.

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6. CONCLUSION

AK is a example of a business visionary with open society qualities. His first entrepreneurial endeavor
was a Malaysian consultancy MAI Holdings Sdn Bhd. He like wise set up Exoil Trading, which went
ahead to buy oil penetrating concessions in different nations. After that, he moved into gambling. He
began differentiating into the media coliseum mid 1990s. Currently, he has business intrigues in media
like Astro, satellite like MEASAT and SE, oil and gas like Bumi Armada and Pexco, information
transfers like Maxis, Aircel and Sri Lanka Telecom.AK demonstrates that he was an open society
individual when remove Maxis Bhd. from the Malaysian stock trade with a specific end goal to privatize
the organization to take into account worldwide business sector. He likewise keeps up relations inside
of the administration division to make mindfulness about his support of the general public. AK chose to
privatize Maxis and advance the organization comprehensively for its venture advantages. In addition,
his activities would likewise be advantageous to his group as it buildups the name of his nation
Malaysia and a sucessfull Malaysian.As a conclusion, open culture is a trademark that builds up a
man's character. An entrepreneur should build up this character so he can have more conclusion from
various perspectives before taking a strong choice.

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