EP #66: Dunstan Peter - On Launching Trinity Tech, A Multi-Million Dollar Business

Dunstan Peter is a serial entrepreneur who is the founder of several companies including Trinity Tech, Tnext Communication & Trinity Star Development. He was an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2019.He joins Ara on this week’s episode of #TheTamilCreator to discuss the power of education, building up the sales momentum for his multi-million dollar business with no sales reps initially except himself, having a desire to give from a young age, working to change homelessness, killing snakes in his childhood and the PTSD he experiences now because of it, loving himself and having zero regrets or insecurities, and so much more.Follow Dunstan:- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunstan-peter-besc-emba-3938a732/) Timestamps00:19 - Ara introduces this week’s guest, Dunstan Peter01:47 - Dunstan speaks on his childhood, living through the SL war, and using education to escape poverty04:13 - Looking at everything as a positive and understanding life doesn’t go the way you want it to06:26 - Having only one meal a day, for six months, as a child08:00 - How he came up with the idea of Trinity Tech15:02 - Being hired by Ford to grow a multi-million dollar business16:27 - Scaling from 0 to 85 clients in the first 2 years; where did he find a quality team for this?18:31 - The business’s revenue structure; service contracts with his first being $300,000 over 3 weeks21:35 - His business ventures outside of Trinity Tech; Tnext Communication with 5k employees and plans to scale to 10k25:35 - Trinity Star Foundation; why he started it and the impact its made thus far35:46 - The high percentage of success stories as it relates to Tamil immigrant entrepreneurs42:59 - Balancing family, health, his business; Dunstan slept at the Ford plant for 6 months48:05 - His view of money; how he invests, saves, and more50:57 - Advice he would give his 16-year-old self51:35 - Waking up at 5AM and having a strong morning and night time routine54:17 - How Dunstan wants to be remembered by friends and family54:52 - Creator Confessions1:00:07 - The Wrap UpIntro MusicProduced And Mixed By:- The Tamil Creator- YanchanWritten By:- Aravinthan Ehamparam- Yanchan Rajmohan           Support the show