BIJOY GOSWAMI, CEO & Cofounder (hi-res pic - 6.4MB)

Bijoy Goswami applies people-centered approaches to life and work. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aviri.

Bijoy’s diverse background provides him a unique vantage point from which he synthesizes disparate thinking into focused and actionable viewpoints. Raised in India, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Bijoy moved to the United States in 1991 to attend Stanford University, where he studied economics, history and computer science. He was also an Oxford scholar and completed an Honors program in Science, Technology and Society. After graduating from Stanford, Bijoy joined Trilogy Software, where he worked for five years in business development, sales, consulting, and product management.

His lifelong passion for personal and organizational transformation led him to co-develop the MRE Framework. The Framework categorizes people and organizations into one of three core types—Maven, Relater, or Evangelist—and shows how these types affect our perceptions of the world. A synthesis of elements from eastern philosophy, the social sciences and management theory, the MRE Framework is a powerful, practical tool for understanding yourself and others, for building better teams, designing better products, making sense of social and economic policies, and much more. His first book, The Human Fabric, explores the MRE Framework in detail. The book was released in November, 2004.

Bijoy is the founder of Bootstrap Austin, a vibrant open source community of entrepreneurs building companies the old-fashioned way, taking the right action at the right time. The group has evolved into the Bootstrap Network with chapters in multiple cities. Prompted by his work with the City of Austin's SBDP, Bijoy has created an online Bootstrap Bootcamp, to help individual entrepreneurs through the bootstrap process. Bijoy believes bootstrapping is not just for young companies, but can serve as the basis for innovation at large ones. He has created a total Rebootstrap Innovation Program to help large companies become nimble - like they were when their founders started them. This program brings together MRE, Bootstrapping and his experiences building the Bootstrap Network. He is working on his second book on Bootstrapping, titled "Demo/Sell/Build."

Bijoy enjoys sharing these ideas with individuals and organizations. He has spoken at numerous events and has led discussions on how people-centered approaches can be integrated with technology, innovation and corporate strategy. He sends out periodic updates in the form of a newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. See Bijoy’s other articles and blogs on The Human Fabric and Boostrapping.

His other interests include music and practical philosophy.