The Webmaster
While surfing the Internet at Oxford University, adman Ajit Balakrishnan was truly amazed by the power of the World Wide Web. Though he was working with the successful advertising agency Rediffusion DY&R he got hooked, and along with a group of like-minded peers in a smoke-filled café in Dadar, Mumbai in 1995 decided to start a cyber venture called Rediff.com. He had dabbled with IT earlier, as a director with PSI Data Systems. But Rediff.com, launched before dotcoms became fashionable and one that survived the later bloodbath, would be the name that history will remember him for. The first Indian Web company to be listed on the Nasdaq, Rediff.com is now getting ready for the next leap in the future with Balakrishnan firmly at the helm.

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