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Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Impact Investing

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Gururaj Deshpande

  • Founder, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
  • male
  • Asian
  • 1952 (Age: 72 years old)
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Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American businessman and social entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA based internet company Sycamore Networks in 1998 and the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. He is also founder of the Deshpande Foundation.

He started his career working at Codex Corporation, a Motorola subsidiary in Ontario, Canada which manufacturers modems, before moving to the U.S. in 1984. Later he co-founded Coral Networks, a router developer, in 1987, he sold the company, two years later for $15 million.

In 1990, Deshpande co-founded Cascade Communications, whose products were very important in the early internet, initially serving as its president and later Executive Vice President, he hired Dan Smith as CEO. He sold Cascade to Ascend Communications for $3.7 billion in 1997. Subsequently, with help of MIT researchers, he launched Sycamore Networks in 1998. Sycamore Networks went public in October 1999, and soon raised a market cap of $18 billion, and his 21% shareholding, briefly made him, one of the richest Indians in the world, and in 2000, he featured on the Forbes 400 listing of Richest Americans.

In 2000, he founded Networking and Telecom equipment products company, Tejas Networks, along with US-based ASG-Omni in Bangalore.

In July 2010, he was appointed as the Co-Chairman of National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group set up to support US President's innovation strategy.

The question is impact investing. Actually, it's getting more mainstream now. In fact, working with a team of people from MIT who actually came up with a solar panel energy cooler. They have been working on it for three or four years now. Finally, we found a way to do it in India. So what it do...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States The Future Will Require Everyone To Become Entrepreneurial
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 12 sec.
Video 2 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States Life Is A Series of Opportunities and Accidents And You Should Remain Open To Them
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 3 min. 18 sec.
Video 3 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Entrepreneurship And The Conviction To Succeed
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 3 min. 34 sec.
Video 4 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States Conviction Alone Is Not Enough For Entrepreneurial Success
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 4 min. 13 sec.
Video 5 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States Entrepreneurship Can Be A Career Path
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 31 sec.
Video 6 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States Entrepreneurship Is Like A Contact Sport
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 9 sec.
Video 7 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Concept of Building Your Personal Balance Sheet
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 4 sec.
Video 8 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Recommends Getting Experience And Saving Money Before Branching Out On Your Own
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 40 sec.
Video 9 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Impact Investing
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 25 sec.
Video 10 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Gut Decisions And Resource Utilization
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 3 min. 39 sec.
Video 11 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Shares Thoughts on Perseverance
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 4 min. 50 sec.
Video 12 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande States Importance of Looking For Opportunities To Participate And Add Value
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 28 sec.
Video 13 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Failure And Success
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 3 min. 0 sec.
Video 14 of 14 Gururaj Deshpande Shares Example Of Social Entrepreneurship Program
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Realities of Entrepreneurship
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 50 sec.

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