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@jacquesm, When you say read a lot, I hope you are referring to non-indian sources...If so, can you point me to some

by rgovind 14y ago

jacquesm 14y ago
Google will do all the pointing you need and then some, there is a lot of material about him on the web. And a lot of the Indian sources are in fact in English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata Lots of good links there too. https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel The most interesting parts to me are how he managed to leverage his starting position (definitely not at 0) to the point where he made a play for international expansion.
- rgovind 14y ago
  @jacquesm, I appreciate your links below. But I don't see much critical analysis in those links. For example, in the wikipedia article, there are no details about what he did from 1962 to 1991. What projects did he handle during this time, any crisis, etc. Did he fail anywhere or was it midas touch everywhere? A CEO of $100B empire has no controversies? Btw, the article conveniently skips 2G scam that happened in India and how his company got a good price on the spectrum. I am not saying he did wrong stuff...but its not entirely overboard. However, I agree with you, that he definitely leveraged is starting position and made for international expansion. Btw, if you have $1B starting money, whether you are in first world or third world doesn't matter...you can buy companies anywhere.
  - jacquesm 14y ago
    Tough crowd. These are starting points, use them to pull up more information, put it back into google, rinse, repeat. It won't be long and you'll be drowning in critical analysis, such as the time when the farmers whose land was to be vacated for the Nano factories revolted. I can't do your research and reading for you. As for the takeover of corus/hoogovens, that was a $13 Billion deal, getting from $1B to the point where you can do a buy-out at that level is a fairly impressive affair, it was the largest international take-over by an Indian company in history. That alone makes it exceptional and I think you're underestimating the magnitude of that achievement. Oh, and you don't need to do the @username thing here it's not twitter.

@jacquesm, When you say read a lot, I hope you are referring to non-indian sources...If so, can you point me to some

by rgovind 14y ago

@jacquesm, When you say read a lot, I hope you are referring to non-indian sources...If so, can you point me to some

Google will do all the pointing you need and then some, there is a lot of material about him on the web. And a lot of the Indian sources are in fact in English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata Lots of good links there too. https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel The most interesting parts to me are how he managed to leverage his starting position (definitely not at 0) to the point where he made a play for international expansion.

rgovind 14y ago
@jacquesm, I appreciate your links below. But I don't see much critical analysis in those links. For example, in the wikipedia article, there are no details about what he did from 1962 to 1991. What projects did he handle during this time, any crisis, etc. Did he fail anywhere or was it midas touch everywhere? A CEO of $100B empire has no controversies? Btw, the article conveniently skips 2G scam that happened in India and how his company got a good price on the spectrum. I am not saying he did wrong stuff...but its not entirely overboard. However, I agree with you, that he definitely leveraged is starting position and made for international expansion. Btw, if you have $1B starting money, whether you are in first world or third world doesn't matter...you can buy companies anywhere.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  Tough crowd. These are starting points, use them to pull up more information, put it back into google, rinse, repeat. It won't be long and you'll be drowning in critical analysis, such as the time when the farmers whose land was to be vacated for the Nano factories revolted. I can't do your research and reading for you. As for the takeover of corus/hoogovens, that was a $13 Billion deal, getting from $1B to the point where you can do a buy-out at that level is a fairly impressive affair, it was the largest international take-over by an Indian company in history. That alone makes it exceptional and I think you're underestimating the magnitude of that achievement. Oh, and you don't need to do the @username thing here it's not twitter.