This Chartered Accountant jumped into the startup world & co-founded Mindtree

• Rostow Ravanan turned down his secondment at KPMG New York to join Lucent Technologies which had just set up a product realization center in India.
• In hindsight, that decision was a blessing in disguise as he met Mindtree Co-Founder, Subroto Bagchi. 
• In 1999 they left their stable jobs and built Mindtree to billion dollars in revenues, with strong people and governance practices. 
• Here is his journey of how beating conventional wisdom… paid off!

Humble Beginnings

I was born in Chennai, but grew up in Bangalore “the Silicon Valley of India”. I believe this is one of the reasons why my fascination with technology started in the first place.

When it was time to choose a professional course for further studies, I certainly considered Engineering and Medicine.