Salaam Indians

                                     Sanjeev Bikhchandani

                        Is a classic story of spotting an opportunity andchasing it with guts,
                                determination, lots of hard work and a little bit of luck.

                                                          Naukri.com
                  (the company is listed as Info Edge India Ltd on the Bombay Stock  Exchange)
                       is India's number one job portal at a time when there is a seriousscarcity
                       of employable people in just about every sector of business and industry.
                  It is also an extremely successful dot-com, having weathered the 2000meltdown.
                                     How much better can it get? Naukri's CEO spoke to
                                           MONEYLIFE editors Sucheta Dalal and

                                                     Debashis Basu

             about the road he took and its various turningpoints  Shall we start with a little bit 

             about your background and your upbringing?When and how did you decide to be

             an entrepreneur? There are no business people in my family  My father is a doctor

             and he wasin the government from 1950 to 1983. So we were brought up in 

             governmentcolonies.  I studied at St. Columbus School in Delhi, so did my brother.

             There wasno business background in the family, no great financial  acumen or anything.

             My brother went to IIT, Kanpur, then IIM Ahmedabad and then did his PhDfrom

             Stanford. It was forgone in our  family that one would do engineering orbecome a

             doctor the standard  middle class aspirations of parents in governmentservice.

             So I dutifully prepared for IIT entrance, took the exams and qualified.

             Then two or  three things happened. My rank wasn't great.

             I wouldn't havegot the top three or four departments

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