A vision to excel
For a man educated in the Tamil medium and who saw a city for the first time only when he was 22, Shiv Nadar has indeed come a long way. Today he heads the country's biggest IT conglomerate. He started Microcomp in 1976 (rechristened as HCL) with six friends with a capital base of Rs 1.75 lakh borrowed from his PF. And, this after relinquishing his job, heading DCM DP, the youngest head in that company's history. When IBM quit India, Nadar moved quickly to replace the vacated space and since then HCL has never looked back. The admirable thing about Nadar has been that he never rested on his laurels. So, even after HCL became India's #1. hardware company, he ventured into software services, training, networking, BPO and even distribution.

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