Inspiring Stories

  Known as the voice of Infosys, who helped scale their business from $5 mn to $6.5 bn to founding the the world's largest non-profit mid-day meal programme,  Mohandas Pai  is an epitome of giving back to the society. Coming from a humble background, Mohandas was born to a middle class family where his father was a manager for pipe distributor company. Pai never thought he would become what he is today. • How did his life change then? The turning point for him came in 1992 when he started working at Prakash Leasing as a  #finance  professional in Bangalore. Here, he would crunch company balance sheets for breakfast. After 7 years of working, he decided to quit to move abroad. One day, Mohandas saw Infosys planning their IPO and decided to attend its pre-IPO investor meet & meeting of analysts in Mumbai. Little did he know that his  #life  was about to change. A Dalal Street veteran of those times, Vallabh Bhansali was managing Infosys IPO. When Moh...

  From inventing a cigarette holder to a calculator of 140 kgs - here's how Tadao Kashio with his brothers, started Casio Casio is best known for 2 things today: 1. Electronic calculator 2. G-Shock watch, famous for being unbreakable A) But how did the journey of Casio even start? Casio's  #history  dates back to 1917 when Tadao Kashio's family moved to Tokyo from Kochi when he was 5. Kashio worked at a factory after completing school. The factory owner recognised something in the young Kashio & told him to pursue higher education. He learnt engineering & mastered the skills to make household goods. After masters, he set up his own  #business  in 1946 in Tokyo. And as a subcontractor he manufactured parts of microscopes and other technical equipments. Kashio soon roped in his three younger brothers – Toshio, Kazuo and Yukio to work with him - this was the beginning of a great  #beginning . 1. Toshio's significant contribution behind where Casio is t...

  From an initial investment of Rs 18,700 to creating a company that now generates revenues worth Rs 24,000 cr, here's how HCL took over IBM when Shiv Nadar sensed a boom in the IT sector much before anyone else. Born without a silver spoon in 1945, in a village in Tamil Nadu, Shiv did electronics engineering from Coimbatore. •Early job days After graduation, he began his  #career  at the Walchand group in Pune in 1967 and moved onto work at Cooper Engineering Company before getting another job at Delhi Cloth Mills. He used to work for 10-12 hours a day which made him realise that this was not what he was meant to do. Following his heart, he along with a few of his colleagues at Delhi Cloth Mills quit to start their own company called 'MicroComp Ltd' in 1975. They focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market. • Turning point When IBM was exiting  #India  in 1976 due to political reasons 1976, Shiv realised that India did not have many computer...