No dream is too big for Indias biggest IT company
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FEW DISPLAY THE clarity of thought that Rajesh Gopinathan does. Sitting in his office at Fort in Mumbai, the chief executive officer and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services, spoke about a time when the company struggled to convince the world that India could do programming. Today, the Indian IT industry has a global standing, and TCS is the country's biggest IT company. “We were convincing the clients to ship us the machines so that we could code on them,” says Gopinathan, 47. He attributes the success to F.C. Kohli, the architect of TCS, and those who had the conviction to do it back in the 1960s and 70s. “That perspective should never be lost that it was sheer will, vision and conviction that got it going,” he says.
This story is from the October 14, 2018 edition of THE WEEK.
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