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How to think like an IT CEO

Ashok Narasimhan has a skeleton in the deep recesses of his cupboard. He was the founder-president of Wipro Infotech and Wipro Systems .

And that’s not all. His cupboard is full of the spirits of the companies he created and left behind, the last of which was a young start-up called Prio Inc, which he sold for $1 billion.

He spent a year “goofing around” after that, but now he’s shocked his friends and family by co-founding another venture called July Systems, which might very well go the way the others went by June.

“I have a need to be challenged,” he says, “I like problems that are tough and risky. I would be bored running Wipro today.”

Deep inside a basement in Delhi’s Navjeevan Vihar, Jeyadev Parthasarathy has a glint in his eye as he ticks off the names of the companies he’s had in the past — Links Computers, Valueline Interiors, Blue Chip Technologies .

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