Interview with Thulsi Ravilla, CEO of Aravind Eye Care System, on Selfless Innovation

What’s the secret for disruptive innovation – the Holy Grail for all entrepreneurs and venture capitalists? Do it for someone else. At Columbia University’s Healthcare for Millions conference, Mr. Thulsi Ravilla, CEO of Aravind Eye Care System, spoke on the need for Selfless Innovation. “When your focus is just to better things for yourself, you focus on incremental improvements at best, so you seldom come up with the disruptive innovations that really make an impact. Anyone who wants to have an innovation which is very meaningful and impactful, they really will have to do this for someone else.”