rkumar
April 9th, 2006, 05:37 PM
Dear Friends,
I am starting this thread on one of the greatest Jat technocrat whose name not many know in India in general and Jats in particular. The great Jat is Pradeep Sindhu. Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla calls Sindhu "tech’s biggest unsung hero".
I don't claim to understand a great deal about the technology Pradeep has developed, but whatever I have read, he is the one who took head on CISCO and challenged it. Pradeep Sindhu was the first ever Jat to be mentioned in Forbe's Billionaires list of 2000. His fortunes in that year (US$ 2.6 Billion) were almost as much as of Azim Premji and way ahead of people like Sabeer Bhatia. Unlike other Jat billionaire KP Singh who inherited the wealth from his father-in-law, Pradeep is a self made man.
I happen to know Pradeep's family quite intimately. His father Col. Badan Singh is married in the same Hooda family of Sanghi as me. Pradeep's elder brother Gen Kuldeep Singh and I lived for a year in the same apartments (Pragati Vihar Hostels) in New Delhi. It was during this time I met Pradeep for very brief time. Few years back my wife told me that Kuldeep's younger brother has made it really big financially in USA. I somehow could not comprehend the extent of his fortunes at that time.
Pradeep is among the top 50 Network Gurus of the world. If you google on Pradeep Sindhu, you can see a wealth of information. I am a bit astonished that when people like Sabeer Bhatia with their Hotmail sale for US$ 400 million are sung in every news paper and magazine, this shy great Jat is hardly known to anyone, including our Kilki mar Jats.
Don’t you think this great Jat from Haryana needs to be honoured in most appropriate manner? I am certainly feeling extremely proud to be intimately knowing this family.
Rajendra
I am starting this thread on one of the greatest Jat technocrat whose name not many know in India in general and Jats in particular. The great Jat is Pradeep Sindhu. Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla calls Sindhu "tech’s biggest unsung hero".
I don't claim to understand a great deal about the technology Pradeep has developed, but whatever I have read, he is the one who took head on CISCO and challenged it. Pradeep Sindhu was the first ever Jat to be mentioned in Forbe's Billionaires list of 2000. His fortunes in that year (US$ 2.6 Billion) were almost as much as of Azim Premji and way ahead of people like Sabeer Bhatia. Unlike other Jat billionaire KP Singh who inherited the wealth from his father-in-law, Pradeep is a self made man.
I happen to know Pradeep's family quite intimately. His father Col. Badan Singh is married in the same Hooda family of Sanghi as me. Pradeep's elder brother Gen Kuldeep Singh and I lived for a year in the same apartments (Pragati Vihar Hostels) in New Delhi. It was during this time I met Pradeep for very brief time. Few years back my wife told me that Kuldeep's younger brother has made it really big financially in USA. I somehow could not comprehend the extent of his fortunes at that time.
Pradeep is among the top 50 Network Gurus of the world. If you google on Pradeep Sindhu, you can see a wealth of information. I am a bit astonished that when people like Sabeer Bhatia with their Hotmail sale for US$ 400 million are sung in every news paper and magazine, this shy great Jat is hardly known to anyone, including our Kilki mar Jats.
Don’t you think this great Jat from Haryana needs to be honoured in most appropriate manner? I am certainly feeling extremely proud to be intimately knowing this family.
Rajendra