In the year 2000, KB Chandrasekhar reaped $350 million when he sold his company Exodus communications. The timing could not be more perfect because a few months later, the dotcom bust happened and the company ran into bankruptcy under the new owner.
So, when the whole industry was down, Chandra walked out a rich man.
I met that man yesterday in person to have a conversation. You can listen to the conversation in the podcast above.
Exodus was no ordinary company. At one time, over 90% of the World’s Internet traffic was passing through Exodus’ backbones.
Currently, Chandra is co-founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Jamcracker. He has also invested in over 20 companies, the prominent of them are e4e and Aztec.
His career as a high-technology entrepreneur has spanned Exodus Communications, Fouress Inc., Rolta India, Ltd and Wipro.
The podcast interview traces this true blue Chennaite’s growth from his college days to the high profile successful global IT entrepreneur that he is now.
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Great going Kribs. It’s good to know that you are rubbing shoulders with such biggies. I stumbled on to this site through Google and I have added it to my favorites. You are truly an inspiration for anyone who aspires to be a blogger.
Krishnan
It was inspiring listening to Mr.Chandresekar. Keep the good work Kiruba
I could feel the honesty when KB Chandra was speaking. No wonder venture capitalists placed their bets on him.
KBC should host Kaun banega Crorepati as a VC in Chennai.
Can you let me know when you post the second part.
where is the second part of the interview?
I would like to transcribe these interviews free of cost and make it available for public at your web site! shall I?
Shiva – shiva@isourceindia.com
As adviced by my CEO, we would like to transcribe these podcasts and give you the transcript document.
Let us know how to proceed.
thanks!
Sam – sam@transcriptionstar.com
It was a nice talk. KBC sounded so real and down to earth, no trappings of extraordinary early achiever and a VC… Thanks Kiruba for the experience.
Can’t wait for the next segment. Ask this question if you can…
How does he see the future of AZTECSOFT since it’s fortunes are dimming lately…?
Hey Kiruba,
Good to see this post on KBC. Actually we are hosting a mini conference at IIM Bangalore for my course PGSEM and would like to invite KBC for a panel discussion on Productizing a Service and Saas. Would you be able to introduce me to KBC via email at this id of mine sridharp05(at)iimb.ernet.in or my regular id of psridharp(at)gmail(dot)com.
Thanks,
Sridhar Pabbisetty