Mumbai, NFAPost: Kanwal Rekhi, Silicon Valley based Indian entrepreneur and founding member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), launched his book “The Groundbreaker: Risks, Rewards and Lessons from a Legendary Entrepreneur” at the IIT Bombay campus as part of the Alumni Day.
The globally renowned entrepreneur and mentor, Kanwal Rekhi’s book is published by HarperCollins and reveals his inspiring journey from IIT Bombay to Silicon Valley. The book reflects on his formative years at IIT Bombay, his entrepreneurial path and his continued commitment to mentoring and nurturing future founders.
As part of the India launch of the book, Kanwal rekhi is interacting with entreprneurs across 11 cities in India spanning 5 weeks. After the India launch, the book will have its the US launch which begins from Feb 24th onwards.
In The Groundbreaker: Risks, Rewards, and Lessons from a Legendary Entrepreneur, Kanwal Rekhi shares how he rose through the early digital age, helped shape global tech, advised world leaders, and mentored a generation of founders who would go on to become millionaires and billionaires. From arriving in America with just $8 to becoming the “Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia,” Kanwal Rekhi has lived a life shaped by risk, resilience, and relentless belief.
More than a memoir of his life, Kanwal Rekhi exhorts the readers via the book to take a path of action for dreamers, doers, and those brave enough to bet on themselves. With lessons on resilience, leadership, innovation, and purpose, it’s at once a deeply personal story of overcoming adversity and an urgent rallying cry for the next generation of changemakers.
In The Groundbreaker, Kanwal Rekhi shares a firsthand account of what it meant to be an American at the dawn of the digital age, what it means to be an American now amid massive change and uncertainty, and why democracy is crucial to the role entrepreneurs play in moving the world toward a better tomorrow.
On a freezing cold night in 1967, Kanwal Rekhi arrived at the Michigan Tech campus as a student. He was part of the first wave of Indian emigres, known as the $8 Men, a moniker stemming from India’s effort to stem the loss of brainpower from the country by allowing those who were leaving to take only $8 of currency. In the decades that followed, Rekhi went on to create history in the global technology and entrepreneurship space.
Dubbed the “Godfather of the Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia” by Fortune magazine, Rekhi rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison on his meteoric ascent in the tech industry. He went on to advise Presidents and Prime Ministers on culture-shifting policies, and is perhaps best known for his work inspiring and launching the careers of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs, many of whom have become millionaires and even billionaires.
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From arriving in America with just $8 to becoming the “Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia,” Kanwal Rekhi has lived a life shaped by risk, resilience, and relentless belief.
More than a memoir, this is a call to action — a book for dreamers, doers, immigrants, innovators, and anyone brave enough to bet on themselves.
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