NITW Podcast - Uncovering the fascinating journey of 50 Alumni
Being one of the top colleges of India, my college (NIT Warangal) boasts several alumni who are phenominally successful in their careers - from Unicorn founders to top beurocrats!
I plan to interview 50 of the 40,000 +alumni whose journey after graduation is very inspiring and intriguing!
- Partnered with Curious Men Films for production and packaging.
- Primary Target Audience: 4,000 Students and 40,000 Alumni of NIT Warangal.
- Broader Audience: 16-25yo, college going
- 1:1, Long format, Recorded in Riverside
- 50% about their work. Rest about their life before, during and after NITW
Currently at 28/50. Please suggest alumni whose story/journey you are curious to know. Thanks!
Entrepreneurs
Vipin Jain
CSE '94
Sold his startup(Pesando) to AMD for $2B
Sanjay Kalra
ECE '92
Lacework(Raised $1B+) & ShiftRight(Now Zscaler)
Nagarjuna Venna
CSE '96
Co-founded BitSight which is valued at $3B+
V A Sastry
EEE '64
Entrepreneur & philanthropist (donated Rs 1,850 Crores)
Raghu Ravinutala
ECE '00
Co-founded Yellow, raised $100M+
Lakshman Kakkirala
ECE '96
Sold his startup to Facebook, their 1st Indian acquisition
Gaurav Sharma
CHEM '10
Co-founder of SaaSLabs - 200 cr+ in revenue
Kalyan Varma
ECE '08
Co-founded Almabase - 40 cr+ in revenue, SaaS Mentor
Pardhu Gunnam
ECE '07
Co-founded Metaphor Data, funded by top VC's like A16Z
Pavan Thatha
ECE '00
Sold ShieldSquare to an Israel Public company
Investors/ Enablers
Mahendran Balachandran
MECH '86
20+ years in investing, Serior Partner at Accel
Edwin Daniel
MECH '10
Co-founded Optimistic Capital, investing in HoReCa segment
Anand Rajagopalan
CIVIL '08
Man behind TWorks, India's largest prototyping centre
Operators
Aarthi Subramanian
CSE '93
Group Chief Digital Officer, Tata
Murali Devalla
MECH '64
President at Reliance, 50+ years in Reliance
Pushmeet Kohli
CSE '04
VP, Google Deepmind. Top 0.1% AI researchers from NITW
Sudhir Kumar Mishra
PHD
Head of DRDO
Artists
Ramajogayya Sastry
ECE '91
Renowned Telugu lyricist, worked in over 100 films
Shreya Dhanwanthary
ECE '09
Acted in Scam 1992, The Family Man and more
Kartikeya Gummakonda
BioTech '13
Acted in 10+ films, hero of super hit movie - RX100
Manikanth Gelli
BioTech '13
Tollywood director, directed 2 movies and more to come!
Bureaucrats
J D Lakshminarayana
MECH '86
Former Joint Director for CBI
Mahender Reddy
CIVIL '80
Ex DGP, Telangana
C J Venugopal
CIVIL '84
Addl Chief Secretary, Govt of Odisha
Muthyala Raju Revu
EEE '02
Ex Principal Secretary, Govt of AP
Sridhar Pidatala
CIVIL '77
Chief Commisioner, Income Tax
V Siva Kumar
CIVIL '84
Ex DIG
Politicians
Kavuri Sambasiva Rao
Mech '64
Five times MP, and a successful industrialist
Padma Kuppa
MECH '88
Was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives