>>Anyway, are Anil Kripalani and Arun Sarin Indian Indians or American Indians [I don't mean Native American Indians]? Meaning did they join Qualcomm direct from India or did they do their stuff or grow up in USA then join Q!>>
My guess is that they arrived in the US to pursue graduate studies and joined good companies and moved up. A very typical story.
Other such examples of such India-born India&US educated successes:
- Vinod Khosla who co-founded Sun Microsystems,
Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail),
Naveen Jain (Infospace),
Sidhu & Sharma (I2 Technologies),
Desh Deshpande (Cascade Communications & Sycamore Networks),
Co-founders of Cirrus Logic, Whowhere (sold to Lycos for $100 million+), Egain, Torrent Networks (sold to Ericsson for $500 million), Kiva (sold to Netscape), Netobjects (Sold stake to IBM), Aspect Development, Juniper Networks, Tibco Software, Avici Networks, Nextabit Networks (Sold to Lucent) Brocade Communications, Market Guide (sold to Multex), Yago Networks, Junglee Corp. (sold to Amazon), Lightera (sold to Ciena), Cerent Networks (sold to Cisco for $7+ Billion), Healtheon, Exodus Communications, Gupta Technologies, Keynote Systems, Amercian Info, Informatica, Microstrategy, Smart Modular Technologies, E-Stamp, Infosys, and others. Many more start-ups in the pipeline.
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