Rahul Dev Gupta

"CEO @ Kuruvindum" is one way to describe what I do.

Many a times however, the journey is more interesting than the destination. So let's see how I landed up here when my dream was (& still is!) to become a theoretical physicist.

Unlike Robert Frost in his poem “The Road Not Taken", I took the road more traveled by but in my case too, that "made all the difference".

For me, the road more traveled by led to a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics Engineering; followed by post-graduation in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA); & then working as SBU Head, CEO, Group CEO etc in the private sector + as MD @ a quasi-govt undertaking.

Plus, along the way tangling with a couple of worker's unions (& an officer's union too!!); staring them down & then watching them melt down; from hostility, aggression etc to outright capitulation.

Has the road chosen been for the better so far?

Or for the worse?

Life doesn’t have control samples; and even if it does (as per the Many-Worlds Interpretation a.k.a. Theory of the Universal Wave-function), these aren't observable.

My one observable reality is the one I am living currently i.e. as CEO @ Kuruvindum, a boutique entity that invests in early-stage innovative-tech start-ups.

What else?

Well, I've been nominated to various honorary positions (ex-officio as well as otherwise) with governmental and other organizations.

I'm a member of Mensa, the UK based organisation for persons with exceptional intelligence.

And I combine my work @ Kuruvindum with Pro Bono activities oriented towards the start-up ecosystem e.g. teaching etc.

REBOOTING MY LIFE??

Would I undo/redo some life choices if it were possible?

Yes (and in fact who wouldn't?).

But:-

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, /// Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit /// Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, /// Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

(Quatrain LX of Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat")

ME (& KURUVINDUM) @ THE WEB

The site symbols given at the end (below) hyperlink to my web presence. I'm active on some, not so much on the others.

I also had a "Somewhere" page @ https://www.somewhere.com/rahuldevgupta but the site itself seems defunct now. All that work lost. Sigh. Curses etc.

Kuruvindum too has a mix of active & not-so-active presence on its various eCoordinates. Please check out https://about.me/kuruvindum for a complete list.