About Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal was the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ, co-founded and built TiE into the largest global network of Indian entrepreneurs, and co-founded Inventus where he applies his full energy and time building Inventus into a leading early stage venture franchise.
Kanwal came to the United States from India for graduate studies, advanced through the engineering ranks in a number of technology companies, and then co-founded Excelan in Silicon Valley to commercialize ethernet and TCP/IP – standards which became the basis of the Internet. He took Excelan public in 1987, becoming the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to list a venture-backed company on the NASDAQ.
My Views On
Are incubators and accelrators making any impact? I know Y-combinator has done well but is their model repeatable? Is there any study showing that they are an efefctive…
I was a buff of old west shows that were very common when I first got to US in 1967. One thing I remember is cowboys triying to…
Indian middle class ethos are pretty clear. There are constant exhortations: Beta Doctor Bano ( Son become a doctor); Beta engineer Bano (son become an engineer). No parent…
C.K.Prahalad December 28, 2000 Preamble: TiE began as a dream of a few visionary individuals in the Silicon Valley and from these humble beginnings…
Thomas Babington Macaulay must be turning in his grave wondering what had he wrought. After East India Company had conquered India and was in full control of India…
Today is India’s 73rd independence day. I will be 75 in 2 weeks. So my life spans independent India’s life.India is unbelievingly diverse. As a matter of fact…
Although, picking TCP/IP proved to be the right decision ultimately, it was any thing but easy decision at the time. TCP/IP was seen as tainted protocol, developed by DARPA (…
Excelan was by and large a technology supplier to OEMs. These OEMs were tbuilding super-microcomputers using a plethora of Micro-processors and busses. Most of them ran a version…
As I took over as the Interim CEO in March of 1985, we were hemorrhaging cash badly. We were selling Ethernet boards at a list price of about…