Nandan Nilekani

Indian businessman

Nandan Nilekani belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.

The record lists Nandan Nilekani as Indian businessman.

Nandan Nilekani was born at Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital in 1955. His recorded nationality is India. He was educated at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Bishop Cotton Boys' School.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur and politician.

His recorded affiliations include IGATE Patni and Infosys limited.

Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.

That the business was built from India shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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