Rajeev Sasidharan
Rajeev Ettanickuzhiyil Sasidharan (born December 18, 1985) is an Indian
Entrepreneur. He is best known for founding the website www.roadcompass.com . Rajeev is
the Managing director and CEO of the website www.roadcompass.com
.
Rajeev was inspired by the success of Orkut. His initial
effort to start a social network during the year 2005 was a failure due to
the lack of knowledge about the industry and also due to the
lack of funds.
Early life
Rajeev was born in 1985 in Palai, Kerala, India. He is the son of retired deputy Jailor E.N Sasidharan and his mother C.G Sukumary was a
teacher by profession. He and his younger brother Sajeev Sasidharan were
brought up in Alapuram a small village in the state of Kerala.
Rajeev was raised as a Hindu but afterward he became an Atheist. He did His
schooling at Alapuram Government Lower primary school and also at St.Peteres
Higher Secondary school Elanji, Kerala, India.
Early years and College life
After finishing the school Rajeev joined for the Bachelor’s degree in
Commerce at St. Thomas College Palai. After finishing the bachelor’s
degree in first class he joined for Masters in Business Administration at
Jaibharath College Perumbavoor, Kerala. The Business Administration
course helped him to find his real potential. It was during this time he has realized his potential to become an entrepreneur. During the year 2010 he
went to study in Sunderland University UK for the Maters in International
Business.
Career
Rajeev began his entrepreneurial life during the college days at
Jaibharath College in, where he sold uniforms for his batch mates. He invested the
profit form the uniform business into share trading which also was a success.
Later during the year 2014 he started used cars selling which has provided him
with 20% profit.
During the year 2010 he joined the Orridge PLC as a stock counter. Later
during the same year he joined Poundland PLC UK as customer sales assistant. In
2012 he joined Marks and Spencer as sales assistant.
Rajeev started thinking about a website during the year of 2010, after
the initial failure in 2005. He started working on his idea
for a website, the interest in travelling and photography inspired him to
develop a website for travelling called www.roadcompass.comThe
idea was converted from paper to reality in the year 2014 but it was failure
due to the lack of skills from the development team. Later the website was
redesigned and launched in the year 2015.
Politics
Rajeev Sasidharan has never specified his political views but he has
some slight interest in the new political party AAP.
Personal life
He currently lives with his parents in his home town Alapauram.
around the world. The website was
founded in the 2012 and launched in the year 2015. Roadcompass provides the
users with a platform to search for interesting travel destinations, share
their interest in photography, share the traveller’s story and it helps the
travellers to organize their tours. The main aim of the website is to promote
sustainable tourism. 
