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.
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Only one in fifty people in general population succeeds as an entrepreneur. Not very good odds, I must say. No wonder parents are not in favor of it.…
I am often asked if experience is helpful? Simple answer is yes. I have worked with thousands of entreprenurs. I have been directly involved in almost 200 startup.…
John Bosch was a board member at Excelan. He was rough and gruff character but he was very matter of fact in his approach. After I started to…
I am not a epidemiologist. As a EE, my expertise is physics and math. So I am using the facts as put out by CDC and other experts.…
http://dailysikhupdates.com/historian-hari-singh-nalwa-never-got-his-due-respect-in-india/?fbclid=IwAR39ls6l2N0TBAq3WVfRb29ZlVRVgBPgY7AdTfVZ4_DgqYEE03CgD4PTKMM It is not only Hari Singh Nalwa but also Maharaja Ranjit Singh who never got due respect. Afghans had ruled India except for the Mughal period. Mohmed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEkYscgbqE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3rHoRq0qYfVDm-G3v4hvgNnPuu7vF5xvVJ-f3daZRo5zkgJoqgGv_tXjY The Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech on the August 14, 1947 celebrating India’s freedom has to be one of the grandest speeches of all time. He had put in…
In March of 1985 I had the battlefield promotion to become CEO, actually interim CEO, of Excelan. My co-founder Inder Mohan Singh had just quit. Till then I…
After being laid off from RCA Computer Systems, I moved from West Palm Beach, Florida to Sunnyvale in Northern California in December of 1971. I had a job…
In the summer of 1995 I rented a 16 passenger Ford Van took 8 kids and two adults on a 30 day, 6000 mile western drive that spanned ten…