Profile Name Place and DOB Education : Sandiaga Salahudin Uno : Rumbai, 28 June 1969 : Wichita State University,

USA George Washington University, USA After graduating from Wichita State University, Sandiaga started his carrier as an employee in Summa Bank in 1990. A year later he accepted a schoolarship and continue his studying in George Washington University. In 1993 he worked as a manager in Seapower Asia Investment Limited, Singapore. Later in 1995, Sandiaga moved to Canada and worked as Executive Vice President in NTI Resources Ltd. And from that he made 8000 USD per month. Unfortunately, monetary crisis in 1997 made that company bancrupt and Sandiaga was fired. Starting business Suffering this situation, Sandiaga back to Indonesia as a jobless person. He also suffer much lost because the stock values was going down. Cooperated with his friend, Sandiaga built a financial advisory company, PT Recapital Advisors. In 1998, Having Wiliam Soeryadjaya, famous enterpreneur, as his business mentor, Sandiaga also built PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya. This company works in mining, telecomunication, and forestry product. Dificulties of the business The dificult phase that Sandiaga through is when he started the business. He found that it is hard to find client who trust his company. For several months, his company doesnt have any job order that he almost couldnt pay salary for his employees. Another problem is in the third year of business that Sandiaga had a client who didnt pay the invoices, employees that have less motivation, and the biggest problem, his ownself. Passed in his mind to give up the business. Resurrect phase After 4-5 years roling the business, Sandiaga found that giving 100% and full of commitment will bring a good result. A lot of investors trusted and invest their money to his company. Some other company also trusted with the financial advices gave by Sandiaga. Business achievement After suffering the dificult phases of his life, now Sandiaga has a great result. His companies, Saratoga and Recapital had already a good and stabil foundation and can employ more than 20 thousand people. The company also own assets in total 400 milion USD. Sandi himself

now awarded as number 29th in 40-richest people in Indonesia. He also now a board of directors in PT Adaro Indonesia, PT Indonesia Bulk Terminal, PT Mitra Global Telekomunikasi Indonesia, and Interra Resources Limited. The last big investment he made was in May 2011 that he wants to buy 51% Mandala airlines stock that made him as . . . . . . . Analisis After we read the article above, we know that Sandiaga Salahudin Uno is a young enterpreneur. He started his business when he was 29 years old. He told that enterpreneurship is like an idea which widely spread among young. He suffered a lot loss in his first business and he couldnt pay a salary to his employees. But his effort to keep the business also paid off because he found that his business finally got a lot of profit. We could follow him as our example in the world of business. To be an enterpreneurship we should not easily give up. When the company get loss, we have to find the problems why the company get loss.