YUNOVA Stories
People who built their skillsजिन लोगों ने अपने skill खुद बनाए
True stories of people who built a skill step by step, written from public sources, and where you can start on the same skill for free.ऐसे लोगों की सच्ची कहानियाँ जिन्होंने कदम-दर-कदम एक skill सीखा, public sources से लिखी हुई, और वह जगह जहाँ आप वही skill free में शुरू कर सकते हैं।
Money & FinanceAmartya Sen: from Santiniketan to the Nobel, economics for human welfare
Amartya Sen · Economist and philosopher, 1998 Nobel laureate in economic sciencesAmartya Sen was born on a university campus in Santiniketan in 1933 and, by his own account, has lived on one campus or another ever since. A famine he saw as a boy and questions he argued over as a student in Calcutta became the work of his life. In 1998 he received the Nobel prize in economic sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. His story shows economics as a tool for understanding how people actually live.Read story →
Money & FinanceLuca Pacioli: the friar who put double-entry bookkeeping in print
Luca Pacioli · Renaissance mathematician who published the first printed account of double-entry bookkeepingEvery time an accountant records a debit and a matching credit, they are following a method that was first set out in print more than five hundred years ago. Luca Pacioli, an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, did not invent double-entry bookkeeping, and he never claimed to. What he did was explain the method Venetian merchants already used, clearly enough that it spread across Europe. His story shows how teaching a practical skill well can matter as much as discovering it.Read story →
Money & FinanceWarren Buffett: the reader who learned investing from a book and its author
Warren Buffett · Long-time chairman and CEO of Berkshire HathawayWarren Buffett is often described as one of the most successful investors in history, but his story begins with something any learner can do: reading a book carefully. A young man from Omaha read Benjamin Graham, then went to study under Graham himself. What he learned about understanding a business, waiting patiently and staying away from heavy borrowing shaped a career of more than seventy years.Read story →
Money & FinanceBharat Goenka: the one computer that became Tally
Bharat Goenka · Co-founder of Tally Solutions and Padma Shri awardeeIn 1986 a fire destroyed the Goenka family's cotton business in Bengaluru. The one thing saved was a computer. Bharat Goenka, then in his twenties, used it to write an accounting program for his father, and that program became Tally, the software that most small businesses in India run their books on. His story is about building a tool so simple that the shopkeeper, not the programmer, is in charge.Read story →