America 'land of opportunities' where failure not stigma: Indian-American entrepreneur - India Post
13 Feb 2019 6:30 PM GMT
WASHINGTON: America is a land of opportunities where failure is considered not as a stigma but a path to success, a top Indian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist from the Silicon Valley told a group of newly-naturalized US citizens. Addressing some 200 new citizens, after they took oath at the prestigious ...
- America is a land of opportunities where failure is considered not as a stigma but a path to success, a top Indian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist from the Silicon Valley told a group of newly-naturalized US citizens.
- Addressing some 200 new citizens, after they took oath at the prestigious John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, M R Rangaswami, a Silicon Valley-based software executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist, narrated his personal story as to how this country offers an opportunity to all who work and want to succeed in life.
- Rangaswami, who co-founded Sand Hill Group, one of the earliest ‘angel’ investment firms, told the new citizens about his American story, when he left India at the age of 21 for an MBA in the US with a one-way ticket, a student visa and eight dollars in his pocket.
- His brother in New York had to sign a financial guarantee for his tuition and boarding at Kent State University.
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