By By Sanchita Dash
- From top execs such as Sundar Pichai at Google to Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Silicon Valley has a long list of Indian founders, too, who are making waves.
- Here’s a look at some of the Indian leaders of America’s hottest companies right now.
- From Baiju Bhatt at Robinhood to Rohan Seth at Clubhouse, Indian-American founders are all the rage now.
Indian-Americans are at the helm of some of the world’s biggest technology companies. Apart from world’s most wanted executives such as Sundar Pichai at Google and Satya Nadella at Microsoft, the Silicon Valley startup scene too, in the US, has a long list of Indian founders who are making waves.
Some of these Indian-American founders and chief executives have been in the news, recently, as their companies captivated global attention.
Here’s a look at some of the Indian origin leaders of America’s hottest companies.
Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood
Baiju Bhatt along with his friend at Stanford University, Vladimir Tenev, founded the stock trading app Robinhood, that’s all the rage in the US. Bhatt was born to Indian immigrants from Gujarat in Virginia. Bhatt’s net worth is a billion dollars, according to Forbes.
Founded in 2013, Robinhood has over 13 million users and is valued at over $40 billion. The company has also confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US. Robinhood was in the eye of a storm, as it was at the centre of the GameStop short squeeze saga in the US markets
