Ram Shriram quotes:

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  • I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

  • Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

  • Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  • No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

  • I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

  • I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

  • When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

  • I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  • Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  • If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.

  • There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

  • My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  • My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

  • Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

  • There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  • I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

  • My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  • I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  • In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.

  • There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  • All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

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