My inspiration to start blogging

I resigned on Feb 5th 2009 as the General Manager of the Zimbra Business Unit in Yahoo! which has led me down the path of entrepreneurship once again. One of the people I met during this journey is Rajesh Jain who runs his own blog http://emergic.org/ and is truly an inspiration. If you are a young Indian with dreams of greatness, I highly recommend that you read Rajesh's blog. The last couple of years were a lot of fun building Zimbra from scratch in India and hiring a rockstar team that helped us build value and eventually get acquired by Yahoo! for US$350M. Yahoo! was one of the best companies to work at as a cultural fit for young innovators who are provided with an environment to think independently and express their freedom. However, it fell short of providing an environment for entrepreunership. I have worked for 1 large company (Oracle) and 2 startups (Openwave and Zimbra) that either became large or got acquired by a large company in the last 15 years. My beliefs that "Elephants can't Dance" (Sorry Lou Gerstner - you are wrong) were reinforced in my experience with working at these large companies. I am starting this blog to communicate with young Indians about the experiences of being a high tech innovator, an entrepreneur and a change agent for the New Modern Developed India.