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Gururaj Deshpande States Ultimate Goal Is To Make More People Entrepreneurial

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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.

So, you know, the Sandbox is about six years old in India, about a year old in the U.S.. Sometimes I may sound like it all works, it is all done, but it is a work in progress, and a lot of these things you actually...they're just like startups. When you have a company that you start, you know it's...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Entrepreneurship Background And Interest In Social Innovation
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 5 min. 16 sec.
Video 2 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Creation of His Social Innovation Sandbox
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 5 min. 1 sec.
Video 3 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Importance Of Building The Ability To Solve Problems
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 4 min. 43 sec.
Video 4 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Differences Between For-Profits and Non-Profits
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 3 min. 59 sec.
Video 5 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande States Not For Profits Can Be More Challenging To Get Off The Ground
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 41 sec.
Video 6 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Explains Competition Model For Not For Profits And Why It Is A Better Model
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 44 sec.
Video 7 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande States Solutions Need To Be Relevant But Not Necessarily Technological
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 50 sec.
Video 8 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande States Ultimate Goal Is To Make More People Entrepreneurial
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 2 min. 58 sec.
Video 9 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Shares Sandbox Scalability Example
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 5 min. 5 sec.
Video 10 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande Discusses Concept of Impetus Matching
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 39 sec.
Video 11 of 11 Gururaj Deshpande States Reality That For-Profits Make The Bigger Impact Overall But Have Much To Learn From Not For Profits
  • Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance
  • 9/19/2011
  • Gururaj Deshpande
  • 1 min. 56 sec.