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by Karthik Prabhu (Author)
Five Dollars - Five Years - Five Billion - Five Powwows "Powwow" is a thought-provoking tale of a youngster(Kali) who learns vital lessons on investments from a stranger(Koko) who went from rags to riches by following his passion towards business. Koko narrates how he had only 5$ in his pocket one day and then, how he transformed that into 5 billion dollars in five years. Koko explains all the lessons in five meetings with Kali. In every meeting he shares important and ground-breaking lessons on serial investments. "How to find opportunities?" Kali asked Koko in one of the meetings. "Well, I'll tell you that but before that tell me, what are you doing now?" Koko asked. Kali not doing anything at all, so he was a bit shocked by Koko's question. "Nothing!" he exclaimed. Koko laughed, "Aren't you breathing?" he asked and continued "When you become conscious of your breathing, you understand everything happening around you. Opportunity is like oxygen - you have to start finding it unconsciously just as you breathe unconsciously." What did Kali do after learning all the key lessons from Koko would be a bolt out of the blue that will wake anyone from their sleep and put them back on their desk to work towards the passion of their life. This is not about just dreaming, it's all about making the dreams into reality.
Author Biography
Karthik Prabhu has been writing since childhood. His first aspiration for writing came up when he did an assignment in his seventh grade. The assignment task was 'Writing a letter to the favorite author' where every student in the classroom has to read a book and write a letter to the author of the book of what they feel about the book. The teacher appreciated Karthik as the letter content he wrote for the assignment was like an experienced writer in comparison to the kids in his ages. Even before the seventh grade, he always had an interest for writing. He wrote small stories and poems in a diary during his childhood. After his schooling, he joined bachelors in Information Technology for four years in his home town Coimbatore. After graduation, he begun his career as a programmer in IT company. He left his job after couple of years of work experience as felt boredom with the IT work and proceeded to do MBA in Australia. He graduated from a reputed university and then traveled back to India. Karthik started to as a Sales Manager in New Delhi after his MBA. During that time, he first published his article in social media platform and that was "Wake up from cliche to creative organization styles". Everyone in office including the CEO appreciated the content. He continued to write articles in the field of sales, marketing, strategy, organizational effectiveness and many. The readers loved Karthik Prabhu's blog posts and sent their great appreciations via e-mail. The most liked articles by reader were "Behavioral patterns of assertive sales persona", "Seven keys to unlock Clientele's heart for sales boost", "10 steps to shoot an effective email", "8 secret traits of sales personality Karthik then traveled to Maldives to take up a job in Fisheries Industry as a Head of the Department, where he thought he should continue writing but not to post for a blog but this time for a book. He then started to write and his first book was under the literature fiction genre which was titled as "Powwow". This Powwow is a creative inspirational fiction in which he wrote the content to serve as an inspiration for the reader to make their dreams into reality. He also directed the book trailer with an intriguing script and screenplay which can be found in YouTube as "Powwow Trailer". He loves to be creative in writing and will be continued to write and publish more books with an intriguing content like the Powwow book.
