Nandan Nilekani Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

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4.8 • 186 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Nicolai Tangen talks to Nandan Nilekani Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys, one of the world’s largest IT companies with more than 300 000 employees. Nandan has had an amazing career both at Infosys and for the Indian government where he led the biggest social project on the planet.

The production team on this episode was PLAN-B’s Niklas Figenschaug Johansen and Martin Oftedal. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke with additional input from Doug Shell.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to our podcast in Good Company. I'm Nicola Tangian, the CEO of the Norwegian
0:05.7	Someone Wealth Fund. In this podcast, I talk to the leaders of some of the largest companies we
0:10.0	are invested in so that you can learn what we own and meet these impressive leaders. Today, I'm speaking to
0:15.2	Nandan Nilekani, the co-founder and chairman of Infrasis, one of the world-largest IT companies,
0:21.1	with more than 300,000 employees.
0:23.8	We've been invested in Infrasis since 2011, and we own more than 1% of the company.
0:29.1	This translates to 10 billion Norwegian crown or 1.2 billion US dollars.
0:34.7	Nandan has had an amazing career, both at Info Infoises and also done some tremendous work for the
0:40.5	Indian government where he for instance led the biggest social project on the planet.
0:45.0	He's a super interesting to have you on.
1:03.6	Thank you so much for taking the time.
1:05.2	It's a real honor.
1:06.6	Thank you, Nikola.
1:07.4	It's really wonderful to be on your show.
1:10.5	Why are there so many fantastic Indian-born CEOs in the tech industry in America?
1:17.0	Well, I think that's a great question.
1:18.9	And I feel that it's possibly because Indians have grown up forever dealing with ambiguity
1:24.8	and being able to be agile and quick when things change.
1:29.5	And in a world which is becoming far more ambiguous, where there are so many choices,
1:34.1	where there's no hard and far, there's no black and white, I think Indian CEOs do very well
1:39.0	in this world of ambiguity. Yeah, but I mean, you guys run Microsoft, Alphabet, IBM and your own company.
1:48.0	It's quite amazing, no?
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