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The Services Industry moved India back 20 years in terms of building Products” – Arvind Jha, #PNHangout

April 9, 2014

9 Min read

In 1986, when I graduated from IIT Kharagpur as a Computer Science major, I had picked up an obsession with building products. Soon after college, I had joined DCM Data Products. DCM like other players in the Indian market, were very focussed on product development, as the product culture for designing computers, or writing compilers, etc was prevalent in that era. We as any other product company...

Have you seen a large ship going down? I have, from close.

By Arvind Jha

In Go2Market

February 17, 2014

5 Min read

Polaroid Corp was a great company. Its instant photography technology ruled the world for 70 years. It served presidents, leaders, businessmen and even common people – it was the only way to take an instant picture (a position taken over by the mobile phone post 2007). It had some of the best talent, great chemical engineering skills, manufacturing plants, distribution and experience in...