Sidharth Rao

Proud founder of a couple of really spectacular internet businesses in India. And then, at least 2x number of equally spectacular turkeys.

The first bit taught me how to find great partners, choose great investors, build awesome teams, be great in sales and execute, execute and ruthlessly execute.

The second bit makes me an expert on what "not" to do in the online space in India.

And after 14 years of all this, i am still in the hunt and loving it.

Broadly the high points:

a) Founded Webchutney in 1999. Raised a round of financing from Capital18 in 2007. Dentsu, an advertising conglomerate acquired a significant stake in Webchutney in 2013. Webchutney is largest and most awarded digital agency in India. And continue to be the proud CEO.

b) Incubated JuxtConsult, an online research firm in 2006.

c) Incubated NetworkPlay, India's first brand ad-network in 2008, sold the company to Bertelsmann AG in 2012.