Chai is Indian for tea. Every time you order a chai tea at your Starbucks, we laugh. Chai tea is redundant. You are ordering "tea tea". We ought to know. We (Indians) invented tea. You can Google it.
The Chai Party is invented as I write this. It is composed of Indians who have been given the reins of tech and software companies. There’s even a few women – a bit of surprise for Silicon Valley, purported to be male dominated. Quite a few are graduates of the India Institute of Technology, which seems to be handing out diplomas with degrees on one side and CEO coupons. The coupons used to be redeemable only in India, but US companies now seem to be accepting them. Also, somewhat of a surprise for tech, which for most of its existence in America, was content to import Indians by the thousands on H-1B and use them for cheap coding.
Here is a list off the top of my head. Did I miss any?
- Manish Kumar just joined the Chai Party last month when he was appointed CEO of SOLIDWORKS.
- Ajei Gopal, CEO of Ansys
- Biplab Sarkar, CEO, Vectorworks
- Vyomesh Joshi, previous CEO of 3D Systems
- Amar Hanspal, Co-CEO of Autodesk, now CEO of Bright Machines
- Sundar Pichai: CEO, Google LLC & Alphabet INC
- Arvind Krishna - CEO, IBM Group
- Satya Nadella - CEO, Microsoft
- Shantanu Narayen - CEO, Adobe Inc.
- Ajaypal Singh Banga - CEO, Mastercard
- Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO
- Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO, Micron Technology
- Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks
- Jayshree Ullal, Arista Networks
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