The First Poster boy of the Net : Rajesh Jain
September 10, 2005 – 2:13 pmIf Sabeer Bhatia hit iconic status among Internet entrepreneurs in the US, Rajesh Jain achieved similar status back home when he sold his IndiaWorld portal to Satyam Infoway(now Sify) in 1999 for Rs 500 crore. That was one of the Asia’s largest Internet deals. This astounding deal, amid the Internet boom, sparked off the dotcom frenzy in India. Everyone wanted to be Rajesh Jain.
Rajesh Jain’s Biography::
A graduate from IIT-Mumbai, Jain completed his masters in electrical engineering (communications) from Columbia University. He worked in the US for two years before coming back to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions.
Before fame and money embraced Jain he swallowed many failures. His foray into software development failed, forcing him to take a break in the US in 1994. Fascinated by the power of the Internet, he started IndiaWorld, a Web-based news and information service for NRIs, with his savings.
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