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For Hatim Tyabji—one of the first Indian serial entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, the desire to leave his footprint on the sand came when Sperry, the company he worked for, faced a hostile takeover bid in 1986. “Though a part of the senior management, I didn’t think that the takeover would work.

For me this proved to be the inflexion point when I decided to set off on my entrepreneurial journey,” says Tyabji. The company that he started was VeriFone, which he calls the world's first virtual company—a decade before the big time advent of the Internet.

He took the company public, but after it was taken over by Hewlett Packard, it was time to move on again.

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This time Tyabji ventured into financial services with Saraide Inc, a wireless data company. “It was an industry I knew very little about and it proved an intellectual challenge for me,” he says. The next decision to sell out came after three heart attacks followed by an open heart sur The Man in the Arena - Keith Krach Official Website KOFIP