Story of innovation, scale, riches & ethics

This man once said “Take the stones that people throw at you and use them to build a monument” and what a monument he built and scaled. He is Ratan Naval Tata, scion of the Tata family and great-grandson of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of Tata Group. First, what is Tata Group?

Tata Group is one of the biggest and oldest industrial groups in India. Under the leadership of JRD Tata in 1938, Tata Group assets grew quickly from USD $ 101 Million to over USD $5 billion. Tata Sons further grew the conglomerate of 95 enterprises with vertical and horizontal expansion into sectors such as steel, chemicals, technology, cosmetics, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, tea, software services and more. 

At a certain point, the company looked like it was headed to collapse. Rata Tata became chairman of the Tata Group in 1991, the year of economic liberalization in India. True to the adage he lived by, Ratan Tata decided to take advantage of the opportunity. Economy was opening to foreign markets and Tata Group began to acquire a number of companies, including Tetley, Corus Group, and Jaguar and Land Rover. With these acquisitions, under his leadership, Tata Group grew from a largely India centrist organization into a global business of international reputation and standing. The company now works across six continents in over 100 nations, including markets like luxurious vehicles and accessories to opulent five star hotels. “It is not wrong to make money, but it has to be done ethically”, says Ratan Tata.

Take the opportunity to listen to Ratan Naval Tata speak in conversation with Kanwal Rekhi, Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners at virtual #TiEcon @TiEcon on May 6th. Register with link

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TiEcon 2013 Overview – Focus on Big Data, Mobile, SDN & Entrepreneurship

TiEcon 2013, the biggest conference of its kind, with a mission to nurture entrepreneurship, has an impressive lineup of excellent speakers and panels, in the hottest industry segments of Big Data, Mobile, Software Defined Infrastructure, and in Entrepreneurship.

Big Data track will feature speakers that include, Dr. D J Patil http://bit.ly/YYyOxd, data scientist at Greylock Partners, and Rayid Ghani, http://bit.ly/16Ys2iI , Mr. Obama’s Chief Scientist who converted vast amount of data collected through large commercial databases, boutique lists, voter files, and social media sites, into a source of valuable data that galvanized the election campaign and the rest is history.

Mobile track will hold panels on “mobile ecosystems” to “where they are VCs investing”, in this fast growing market.  The track will feature top notch speakers like Anand Chandrasekhar http://bit.ly/10zEJks, Senior VP and CMO at Qualcomm.

With data centers of the future defined by Software Defined Infrastructure, efficiency is bound to get a boost, as resources get divided.  This track will feature speakers like Dr. Guru Parulkar http://bit.ly/10MyHYw, Executive Director at ONRC and Consulting Professor at Stanford University, with discussions around how OpenFlow might enable networks to evolve by giving power to the remote controller, to modify the behavior of network devices.

Entrepreneurship track has some of the biggest names of inspiring self made entrepreneurs, including famous Ronnie Screwvala http://bit.ly/160LYQB, Syntel’s Bharat Desai http://bit.ly/13HmSrQ, Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics http://bit.ly/ZxDn3f, and Manoj Bhargava  http://bit.ly/17KV6dc, CEO of 5-Hour Energy, possibly the wealthiest Indian entrepreneur, in USA.

Vinod Khosla (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Entrepreneurship is not just a buzzword at TiEcon.  Here future successful entrepreneurs will be showcasing their companies, will get access to mentors like Vinod Khosla and Kanwal Rekhi, and get countless opportunities to network.  The participants will likely include professionals from some of TiE’s 500+ startups and 150+ angel investors.  Come and get energized, in an environment where failures are merely stepping stones to success.

Last few days to register for tiecon, before it is fully sold out – http://www.tiecon.org.