Episodes

  • Pari Natarajan, tech whisperer, on India's shift from the world's back office to global innovation sandbox

    Pari Natarajan, tech whisperer, on India's shift from the world's back office to global innovation sandbox
    Apr 12 2023
    In this episode, Pari Natarajan, founder and CEO of the consultancy Zinnov, talks about how India's tech industry is changing. Once seen as the world's back office, India's IT services sector today prides itself as a digital transformation partner to the world's biggest companies. Pari is among the figures who played an important role in the metamorphosis of India's tech services industry itself. Today, Indian techies are ready for the next phase of this evolution, as every global CIO has an India playbook, he says.
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  • CynLr's Nikhil R and Gokul NA on how far they've come, the launch of H.I.V.E, and what's next

    CynLr's Nikhil R and Gokul NA on how far they've come, the launch of H.I.V.E, and what's next
    Apr 10 2023
    In this episode, Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA, co-founders of CynLr, talk about how far they've come, chasing their dream of building a deep-tech hardware engineering company out of India. The duo has been developing a machine learning and computer-vision-based platform to make industrial robotic arms far more versatile than they are today. Their technology has shown early promise and drawn interest from potential multinational customers. Recently, they launched H.I.V.E, their state-of-the-art R&D centre. They are also only two months away from commercialising their first product
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  • The Big Picture: Ashwin Yardi on the global, multi-cultural opportunities for Indian techies at Capgemini

    The Big Picture: Ashwin Yardi on the global, multi-cultural opportunities for Indian techies at Capgemini
    Mar 21 2023
    In this episode, Ashwin Yardi, CEO of Capgemini Technology Services India, talks about how the Covid pandemic validated and boosted the offshore IT outsourcing model. Today it's more common, even for Capgemini's European customers to directly engage with engineers in Bengaluru, for example, where the Paris headquartered company has its largest Indian operations, Yardi says. He also talks about how the company, with a track record of growing with big acquisitions, offers a global, multi-cultural opportunity for aspiring young Indians considering the tech services space
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  • Manish Jethani on his deepest reasons for starting up, again, and a data problem he's tackling at Hevo

    Manish Jethani on his deepest reasons for starting up, again, and a data problem he's tackling at Hevo
    Mar 15 2023
    In this episode, Manish Jethani, co-founder and CEO of Hevo Data, talks about what drove him to jump back into entrepreneurship, about two years after selling his first venture to what was then Grofers. With about $43 million in funding from investors including Sequoia, Qualgro and Chiratae, Manish and his friend Sourabh Agarwal are close to $10 million in ARR today at their no-code software platform company that helps businesses quickly build the pathways they need to pull data from different sources together
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  • The Big Picture: Debashis Chatterjee on completing LTIMindtree's integration, and strategy ahead

    The Big Picture: Debashis Chatterjee on completing LTIMindtree's integration, and strategy ahead
    Mar 5 2023
    In this episode, Debashis Chatterjee, CEO and managing director at LTIMindtree talks about the successful integration of LTI and Mindtree that has resulted in a $3.5 billion IT services enterprise, ready to take on larger rivals for bigger orders, while retaining the characteristics of a smaller, nimbler operator. Chatterjee, widely credited with successfully integrating the two diverse companies, explains why he thinks LTIMindtree has what it takes to become a significantly larger IT provider over the next few years
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  • Rohan Verma at MapMyIndia on the consumer hardware opportunity in navigation and connected vehicles

    Rohan Verma at MapMyIndia on the consumer hardware opportunity in navigation and connected vehicles
    Feb 26 2023
    In this episode, Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at CE Info Systems, better known as MapMyIndia, talks about why the company is expanding its hardware products business into the consumer segment, offering sophisticated trackers, 'navi-tainment' units and in-helmet, handsfree, smart-navigation assistance. Rohan also talks about how MapMyIndia is becoming an anchor platform for startups to innovate on, building products for both enterprise customers and consumers. One exciting example is a product, currently, under development in collaboration with a startup in Bengaluru, that
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  • Keshav Murugesh at WNS on three recent acquisitions, and why every global CEO is looking at India

    Keshav Murugesh at WNS on three recent acquisitions, and why every global CEO is looking at India
    Feb 16 2023
    In this episode, Keshav Murugesh, group CEO at WNS, talks about every global CEO is trying to figure out how to tap India's tech services capabilities. This has also opened up opportunities for companies like WNS, which are coming into their own, as multinational billion-dollar revenue businesses, to manage or even take over their clients' BPM units. Keshav also talks about three recent acquisitions that WNS has made, spending some $320 million, the capabilities they bring, and what the deals show about where the company is headed
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  • Sudhir Singh on the culture that powers the $2 billion ambition at Coforge

    Sudhir Singh on the culture that powers the $2 billion ambition at Coforge
    Feb 13 2023
    In this episode, Sudhir Singh, CEO and executive director at Coforge, one of India's well-known mid-cap IT services providers, talks about how the company is set to more than double its annual revenues to a billion dollars, for the current fiscal year, compared with five years ago. He also talks about the culture, which he says is a fancy word for the lived experience of the employees in the company—something on which Coforge has not economized, Singh says—that supports the 22,500-strong IT provider's ambition to double its revenues again
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