Shravan Kumaran (14) and his younger sibling Sanjay (12), promoters of Chennai-based mobile applications company GoDimensions Pvt. Ltd (regd. 2011), are surely India’s youngest and most famous company directors.
Class IX and VII students of Chennai’s highly rated Vael’s Billabong-High International School, they have developed seven applications for Apple and three for the Google Android playstore, which focus on games, education and lifestyle. These apps include Catch Me Cop, Alphabet Board, Prayer Planet, Colour Pallete, Emergency Booth, Super Hero, Jetpack EI 5 and Car Racing which together have been downloaded over 48,000 times in 55 countries.
The children of IT professional Kumaran Surendran and journalist Jyotilakshmi, the brothers clambered aboard the ICT (information communication technology) bandwagon in their early years. Shravan started with Paint and Games at age five and to encourage his interest and curiosity, his father taught him the basics of programming when he was seven. Nothing loath, Sanjay also picked up the basics of ICT and over the next four years, they mastered Basic, Java and Objective C. We tested 150 apps before developing our first game app and when we were ready to upload it, we launched our own company, says Shravan.
Focus and perseverance are clearly the success mantra of this precocious duo, with the result that they are able to balance school, research, and business development while making time for lectures and presentations to huge audiences on academic and industry platforms. Among them: IIM-Bangalore, TedX events, CII conferences, and SAP Tech University, Bangalore.
Looking to the future, the brothers are focused on doing well in academics even as they continue to develop apps and grow their business enterprise. We read a lot and keep ourselves updated on all new mobile phones, iPads and tablets that enter the market. Currently we are developing a new application ” Go app ” which will provide technical updates on all apps developed by us. However, we are only too well aware that excelling academically is of prime importance as we aspire to get into the country’s best professional colleges, says Sanjay.
Way to go, boys!
Hemalatha Raghupathi (Chennai)
