Romesh Wadhwani: Building up, and giving away
Next, he took over American Robot, a company that had been launched by the Rockefeller family. He raised over $40 million in venture capital while building it into a robotics technology leader.
When Japanese manufacturers started introducing their robots into the US market at lesser costs, Wadhwani’s company suffered heavy losses. But he felt a moral obligation toward the VCs who had invested in the company and he stuck with American Robot for 10 years to help them get back most of their money. He worked to transform the company into a computer integrated manufacturing software firm. “My first two companies were mediocre. I made so many mistakes and, of course, I learnt a lot from them. But I was really frustrated because even after 20 years as an entrepreneur, building two companies, 10 years each, I did not feel that inner joy and satisfaction, or great feeling of success, compared to what I felt was happening in Silicon Valley,” recollects Wadhwani over a video call with Forbes India in April.
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were innovating with personal computers (PCs), disk drives, semiconductors and more. This made W
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani
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Romesh Wadhwani: The Renaissance Man
Award: Distinguished Non-Resident Philanthropist
Romesh Wadhwani
Age: 66
Why He Won: For creating institutional frameworks for entrepreneurship in India. The Wadhwani Foundation has created a resource network for young entrepreneurs to dip into and is working to get policy bottlenecks removed.
His Trigger: He wanted to focus on key issues like job creation.
His Mission: His Foundation aims to help create 15, to 20, startups, and half-a-million new jobs by and skill 5 million people.
His Action Plan: His model is based on leveraging financial resources from stakeholders —institutes, government, corporates—in the ratio (Foundation:stakeholders).
His Next Move: To strengthen existing initiatives; work with government agencies to ease the process of setting up startups; improve the innovation grant environment and convince governments to include startups in their procurement policy.
It was the afternoon of January 25, Most researchers and faculty members at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore had gathered at the sun-lit colonnade to hear Romesh Wadhwani speak. The billionaire entrepren
Meet Romesh Wadhwani, Karachi-born IITian with Rs crore net worth who landed in US with dollars
Romesh Wadhwani&#;s life story is very inspirational. He was born 10 days after India attained freedom in He had to face the brunt of partition. He arrived in Delhi as a refugee. He had polio when he was 2. However, despite the challenges, he became one of the richest men in the world. He is the chairman of SymphonyAI and Concert AI, which is valued over Rs crore.
Being born in Karachi, he migrated to India when he was a baby. He was always good at studies. He completed his degree from IIT Bombay. He moved to the US in for further studies. He had only dollars when he arrived. He did his electrical engineering PHD from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. He always wanted to own his own company. He started his firm when he was just 25 years of age.
Romesh Wadhwani made his first software in which was linked to energy management and security in commercial buildings.
Romesh Wadhwani reached out to companies for investment, only 1 invested. He was rejected times. He sold the business.
He also built a robot company. His first two companies were moderately successful.
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