I recently had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Vikram Shah of Shalby Hospitals at the IKS Healthcare conclave and I was very impressed. Dr. Vikram Shah is a pioneering orthopedic surgeon. who has performed a very large number of hip replacement surgeries.
He is a first generation entrepreneur - a doctor who started from scratch, and has now built up an orthopedic empire which straddles the entire country. He is the kind of person who needs to be invited to start-up conferences to tell his story, but the problem is he's very shy and unassuming. He is not interested in grabbing the spotlight, unlike lots of other founders, because he's completely bootstrapped and has done this all by himself. He doesn't need to preen and posture in front of investors because he's not hungry for their money. What's remarkable is that even though he's extremely profitable (and has been consistently so),…
