Our guest today is a legend in the world of entrepreneurship. He began his adult life as an immigrant student in the US, way back in the 1960s. He started his own company in the US tech space at a time when Indian-Americans were not particularly known for entrepreneurship.
In 1987, he became the first Indian-American founder to take a venture-backed company public on the Nasdaq. He was also the first Indian-American to serve as a top executive in a multi-billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant, blazing a trail that would be followed by the likes of Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella.
Subsequently, he set up The IndUS Enterpreneurs (TiE) a non-profit to mentor entrepreneurs in the US and India. He has been a hugely successful venture capitalist and angel investor. And now, at the sprightly young age of 80, he is out with a memoir that talks about his entrepreneurial journey: ‘The Ground Breaker: Risks, Rewards, and Lessons from a legendary Entrepreneur’.
Guest: Kanwal Rekhi, Indo-American businessman and venture capitalist
Host: G Sampath
Edited by Shiksha Jural
Produced by Shiksha Jural and Jude Weston
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