Setting up Infosys BPM & Lessons from Mahabharat by Rajiv Kucchal Exfinity VC | Exploring Minds#12

About the Guest:
Rajiv is an active angel investor and mentor to multiple startups in the social enterprise and technology space. He is an Advisor and Board Member of many such companies. He is also a general partner at the Exfinity fund. Rajiv has spent more than 2 decades in the IT/BPO industry, mainly with the Infosys group. He led Infosys foray into the telecom and product engineering services space in the early 90s. He became one of the youngest Business Head and Management Council members at Infosys. He led Infosys foray into BPO as a founding team member of Progeon (now Infosys BPO). He was the Chief Operating Officer of OnMobile and was part of the senior management team instrumental in helping OnMobile scale as an organisation and consolidate its market leadership. Rajiv is a graduate from IIT Delhi.
Timestamps & Chapters:
01:28 - Discovering leadership in IIT Delhi hostel days.
08:27 - Mastering VLSI and chip design.
10:45 - Embarking journey of Software and Telecom.
12:11 - Joining Infosys and Interview with Narayan Murthy as 118th employee.
15:50 - Infosys into hardware and history of Telex Machine.
16:55 - Working with the first International telecom client in Canada.
20:31 - A missed opportunity to invest in RedBus.
22:35 - Setting up of Infosys Chandigarh centre.
27:06 - Starting Infosys BPO.
29:41 - Joining OnMobi as a COO and value-added services industry.
34:26 - Starting Exfinity Ventures with Mohandas Pai.
37:37 - Great founders and startups in Exfinity Portfolio.
42:41 - Why choose not to invest in Redbus.
45:25 - Governance issues in Startups.
46:26 - Learnings from founders of Infosys, Mr Murthy, Mr Nilekani, and Mr Shubulal.
53:21 - Leadership lessons from Mahabharat.
Credits:
Recording Location: Plaksha's Teaching Studio
Host: Shivank Joshi - / shivankjo. .
Studio Direction: Praveen Tomar - / praveen-t. .
Thumbnail Design: Krishnav Mahansaria - / krishnav-. .
Editor: Atul & Migul
Disclaimer:
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