1. Growing up in Kerala and Mumbai, how did your early environment influence your perspective on business and technology?

I grew up in Mumbai in a middle-class family. During my final years of graduation, I was influenced by some of my professors and the teaching profession, and I wanted to become a professor of Economics. At the time, a master’s degree was the required qualification to become a professor, so I enrolled in the master’s program while working a full-time job after graduation.

While studying for my master’s, I also enrolled in a computer diploma program (which was the trend back then) and began my career in Mumbai (Bombay then), which included software training and programming.