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Best of 2021 Ep. 4: Girish Mathrubootham on his billion-dollar revenue dream for Freshworks
In September 2021, Girish Mathrubootham and co-founder Shan Krishnasamy made corporate and tech history in India with their company Freshworks becoming the first SaaS venture started by Indian entrepreneurs to list on the Nasdaq. In this conversation, from February, Girish talks about marrying the art of Indian entrepreneurship with the science of building billion-dollar businesses in Silicon Valley
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Best of 2021 Ep. 3: Mike Cannon-Brookes on the workplace after the pandemic and growth at Atlassian India
Atlassian's team collaboration software is used by customers around the world. And a little over three years ago, the Nasdaq-listed Australian tech company set up its third global R&D centre — in Bangalore. In this conversation, from August 2021, Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO, talks about how Atlassian has grown through the pandemic and plans ahead for the India centre, which has emerged as the fastest-growing talent location for the company
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Tycoons of Tomorrow 2021: The making of the list
Placing bets on the outperformers of today—first-gen, second-gen entrepreneurs, sportspersons, and actors—who will go on to be the Tycoons of Tomorrow. Forbes India's Naini Thaker takes you behind the scenes of how the editorial team huddled over a period of two months to create this definitive list
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Best of 2021 Ep. 2: Manish Gupta on how Indegene disrupted the way drug companies communicated with the market
Indegene, when it started more than 20 years ago, was ahead of its times in trying to bring technology to 'medico marketing.' Manish Gupta—a former Infosys executive—and his co-founders persevered and built a profitable multinational business offering AI and NLP platforms to the world's biggest drugmakers. Covid-19 took the demand for the Bengaluru company's technology to a whole new level. In this conversation, from July 2021, Manish recalls the journey and talks about what lies ahead
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Best of 2021 Ep 1: Heike Riel and Gargi Dasgupta at IBM demystify the promise of quantum computing
In recent years, interest and investments in quantum computing have picked up considerably with technology companies, as well as national governments, committing billions of dollars to develop commercial quantum computers. In this conversation from June 2021, Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Head of Science and Technology and Lead, Quantum, IBM Research Europe, and Gargi Dasgupta, Director of IBM Research India and CTO of IBM India and South Asia, discuss the promise of this emerging technology
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Krishnan Ramanujam at TCS on the IT services giant's ongoing effort to build cloud ecosystems for customers—Part 2
Our guest today is Krishnan Ramanujam, president and head of business and technology services at Tata Consultancy Services, India's biggest IT services company. In this concluding part of a two-part conversation, Krishnan talks about TCS's strategy to build cloud ecosystems for customers—as the cloud model starts delivering much more than cost benefits—and the investments the company will need to make for it
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Krishnan Ramanujam at TCS on the IT services giant's ongoing effort to build cloud ecosystems for customers—Part 1
Our guest today, is Krishnan Ramanujam, president and head of business and technology services at Tata Consultancy Services—India's biggest IT services company. In this two-part conversation, Krishnan talks about TCS's strategy to build cloud ecosystems for customers—in partnership with the 'hyper scalers' including AWS, Microsoft and Google—as the cloud model starts delivering much more than cost benefits
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Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer, on plans for anchoring a proactive digital health ecosystem
Our guest today is Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO at Innovaccer. It is a Silicon Valley and Noida-based cloud software company in the health care vertical. In today's conversation, Abhinav talks about Innovaccer's latest funding round that saw the seven-year-old venture's value nearly triple to $3.2 billion—from nine months ago—and the ambition to become a comprehensive platform for a proactive digital health services ecosystem
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Sakshi Chopra, managing director at Sequoia India, on the VC firm's Spark programme for women founders
Our guest today is Sakshi Chopra, a managing director at Sequoia India, focused on growth investments at the VC firm. In today's conversation, Sakshi unpacks the firm's Spark programme, specifically aimed at helping women founders in India and South-East Asia. The programme has selected its first cohort of 15 women founders for a $100,000 no-strings-attached grant, each, and a year-long mentorship and networking exercise
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These founders at Aerostrovilos are building a next-gen, flexi-fuel micro gas turbine from scratch to power heavy-duty trucks
Our guests today are Rohit Grover, Pradeep T, and their professor at IIT-Madras Satya Chakravarthy. They are co-founders of Aerostrovilos Energy. The name is made of two Greek words, one for air and the other that comes close to describing a turbine. The four-year-old venture has raised half a million dollars in funding and the founders hope to have their first commercial product ready in 2023
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Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel, on getting ready to launch Anand, the space startup's first satellite
Our guest today is Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel, a space startup looking to launch a constellation of satellites. Awais and co-founder Kshitij Khandelwal are building micro-satellites at their company, to be placed in low-earth orbits. One day they hope to get into deep-space exploration as well. To begin with, their first satellite, named Anand, could be launched as early as next month