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Stanford University

Why Indian CEOs rule

The Indian immigrant success story is well documented, particularly in the US. What connects Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Arvind Krishna of IBM, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, Rakesh Kapoor of Reckitt, Indira Nooyi of Pepsi, Leena Nair of Chanel and Raj Subramaniam of Fedex, amongst many other successful Indians, is the fact that their basic education, high school and undergraduate degree, was done in India.

A Silicon Valley odyssey

Only about 100 years ago, Silicon Valley or the region around Santa Clara county, San Mateo county and Alameda was known as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight; a bucolic paradise famous for its orchards and fruit canning industry. There were as many as 39 fruit canning plants at its height and canned fruit brands like Del Monte were exported to the rest of the world

Mob mentality that feeds hysteria

The situation is much more serious in developing countries like India where a large percentage of people lead a precarious life even in normal times and hardly have any savings to fall back upon in distress situations like those created by prolonged lockdowns.