Summary: (http://kamlashow.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/arjunmalhotra1.jpg)Arjun Malhotra (http://www.headstrong.com/biography.cfm?id=1-64) is the chairman and CEO of Headstrong (http://www.headstrong.com), a US-based IT services company. In the 1970s Arjun along with 5 others co-founded HCL Technologies (http://www.hcltech.com/), which was probably the first Indian IT product company. In 1976 when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced their first computer in Silicon Valley, HCL Technologies introduced its first computer in India. Like the Apple founders Arjun and his friends were in their 20s when they founded the company with very little money and backing. Founding HCL Technologies was almost an accidental event Arjun points out in the interview. Tune in to find out what else Arjun has to say about what it was like to start a company in the 1970s when there were very few private companies in India. What was it like to found a technology company in India when there were barely any IT companies or venture capitalists in India? This interview was originally published in Livemint Radio.
