Mumbai: The new CEO of Twitter Parag Agrawal is the latest alumni of the prestigious Indian technical universities appointed to head the multi-billion dollar US technology company, and Shivani Nandgaonkar wants to follow in his footsteps.
22-year-old students at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – Alma Mater Agrawal – have been recruited by Google to become one of the thousands of IIT graduates in the main American technology company.
“When I heard about Parag, I was very happy,” he said.
“One iitian is also a Google CEO, Sundar Pichai.
So this is a stone (stepping) now.” Twitter Agrawal is the youngest chief executive in the S & P 500 at only 37.
Like the Sundar CEO Pichai Sundar Pichai Sundar Pichai Sundar Pichai, he left India after the IIT degree to pursue graduate in the United States before working in several US companies before working in several companies America .
Other Indians at the Highest Echelon Tech Corporate including IBM Arvind Krishna and Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora – Both IIT Alumni – together with Satya Nadella from Microsoft and Shantanu Narayen in Adobe.
Executives and experts say that beyond the sizes of South Asian Sheer Nation, this phenomenon is caused by several push-pull-pull factors and skills including cultural troubleshooting, English, and hard work without stopping.
IIT graduates and Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Vinod Khosla believe that after growing with many communities, customs and language, Indians have the ability to “navigate complex situations”.
“Educational competition in India and social chaos help hone their skills besides strict technical education in the IITS,” said billionaire venture capitis to AFP.
‘Creme de la Creme’ – Silicon Valley demanded technical expertise, managing various communities, and entrepreneurship in facing uncertainty from its peak executive.
“In innovation, you must be able to break the rules, you are not afraid.
And …
You can’t survive a day in India without having to destroy a rule or another or deal with incompetent bureaucracy or corruption,” said Vivek Academic America- American Wadhwa.
“The skills are very useful when you innovate in Silicon Valley, because you have to constantly challenge authority.” And they are valuable: the draft rail-hiling uber this month is offered by IIT Bombay students of the first year package of $ 274,000 for work in the United States.
The contest for such gifts began earlier in the country more than 1.3 billion people with an old focus on education.
IIT is seen as the Top India University, and more than one million students apply every year only for 16,000 places.
For one and a half years, NandGaitar studied up to 14 hours a day, seven days a week.
Some other students start preparation only at 14 or 15, he added.
“Imagine having a 10x entrance is more difficult than MIT and Harvard.
That’s what IIT,” Wadhwa said.
“So, this is Creme de la Creme from the country.” – India’s biggest export? – The IIT network was founded in 1950 by the First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who imagined a collection of graduates of science and techniques that were highly trained to help build India after the end of the British government in 1947.
But the supply of engineers did not match adequate domestic demand, so graduates see Furthermore, especially in the United States where there is hunger for very skilled workers when the digital revolution takes off.
“In the 70s’, and ’00-and, even to the 90s, the Indian industry has not been on the advanced (stage) and …
many of those who want to do cutting-edge technology feel they have to go abroad, “said Deputy Director of Iit Bombay S.
Sudarshan.
Agrawal, Pichai and Nadella spent a decade or more to work through the ranks of their respective companies, building people’s knowledge while gaining the beliefs of the founders of American companies.
And for years, more than half of the applicants for the visa of the Skilled US H1-B immigrant have been from India, and most of the technology sector.
In contrast, the engineers from China who are more densely populated have the choice to find work at home or return after completing their US graduate as their domestic economy booming, said Johns Hopkins University Professor Devesh Kapur, an IIT graduated.
The phenomenon can be reduced in time when the Indian technology sector itself thrives, offering the best thoughts of the country and the smartest in this country, but for Nadanonkar, being a boss of technology such as agrawal or Pichai is not a distant idea.
“Why not?” He said, “big dreams!”