{"id":1017381,"date":"2026-06-29T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017381"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:49:55","slug":"they-left-top-us-tech-jobs-for-india-now-run-multi-crore-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/they-left-top-us-tech-jobs-for-india-now-run-multi-crore-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"They left top US tech jobs for India. Now run multi-crore businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, thousands of Indians make the same move in the opposite direction: they leave for the United States chasing better pay, bigger problems and a global career. A smaller number do the reverse. They give up settled lives abroad and come home to build something of their own. <\/p>\n<p>Two of them, Dr Anand Deshpande, founder, chairman and managing director of Persistent Systems, and Kishore Indukuri, founder of Sid\u2019s Farm, spoke to Financial Express Digital about why they left promising careers in the US and started over in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, thousands of Indians make the same move in the opposite direction: they leave for the United States chasing better pay, bigger problems and a global career. A smaller number do the reverse. They give up settled lives abroad and come home to build something of their own. Two of them, Dr Anand Deshpande, founder, chairman and managing director of Persistent Systems, and Kishore Indukuri, founder of Sid\u2019s Farm, spoke to Financial Express Digital about why they left promising careers in the US and started over in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017401,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017381\/revisions\/1017401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}