Bitten by the startup bug, Indians in the US are morphing into entrepreneurs
Synopsis
Indian techies, who moved to the US amid the Y2K crisis and made a good living, are now turning entrepreneurs. More Indian professionals are starting companies in the US than ever before. However, creating scalable global companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, or Uber is still a bridge too far.
When Nishant Nair, an engineer from Datta Meghe College in Mumbai, started working at Wipro in Bengaluru, he didn’t have any ‘plans’ to become a founder. A year into the job, he moved to the US, where he had stints at top companies such as GE, Qualcomm, LinkedIn, and Yelp customising business-software applications. That’s when he saw an opportunity to build an enterprise-monetisation platform, or a platform to manage subscription services.In
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