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by Kenan E. Sahin (Author)
Anyone in business in the 1990s will remember the spectacular success Kenan Sahin had in taking just $1,000 from his savings and using it to build the first great commercial AI success, leading to a $1.54 billion sale to Lucent Technologies. In Lean Startup, Lean Company, Rich Exit: The Guidebook, Kenan Sahin follows up on his 2024 account as the sole shareholder in this rich exit, detailing his extraordinary entrepreneurial accomplishment and putting it into a practical workbook any aspiring leader can follow.
Included in the guidebook are hundreds of critical insights, including policies and protocols designed over decades to improve and refine the senior leadership, accounting and finance, HR, and product development functions, and more. Kenan brought pioneering AI and Big Data systems to the marketplace in the 1990s, so his framework for business innovation is a must-read for entrepreneurs eager to launch and advance commercially viable AI and Big Data companies.Author Biography
DR. KENAN SAHIN is an academic, scientist, inventor, technologist, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he then served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management, at UMass Amherst, and Harvard.
He founded Kenan Systems with $1,000, growing it into an international company with 750 employees before selling as the sole shareholder to Lucent/Bell Labs. He then ran Lucent's Communications Software Group and served as Vice President of Bell Labs. Kenan's numerous commendations include the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award, the International Institute of Boston Golden Door Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate, and the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts; works in Lexington, Massachusetts; and vacations in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bodrum, Turkey.
