{"id":1022219,"date":"2026-07-20T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022219"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:07:21","slug":"the-big-idea-campus-wager-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/the-big-idea-campus-wager-pays\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: Campus wager pays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A walk down University Avenue in Palo Alto nearly a decade ago changed the course of Harsh Binani\u2019s career. Then with McKinsey in Chicago, Binani was visiting the Bay Area when he stopped outside Accel\u2019s office. Among the logos of companies the venture capital firm had backed was Flipkart, built in Bengaluru and backed by Accel with an $800,000 investment in 2009. For Binani, it was proof that an Indian company could be built to global scale. \u201cYou could leave the American dream and come build something in India which is world-class,\u201d he recalls. Soon afterwards, he did exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk down University Avenue in Palo Alto nearly a decade ago changed the course of Harsh Binani\u2019s career. Then with McKinsey in Chicago, Binani was visiting the Bay Area when he stopped outside Accel\u2019s office. Among the logos of companies the venture capital firm had backed was Flipkart, built in Bengaluru and backed by Accel with an $800,000 investment in 2009. For Binani, it was proof that an Indian company could be built to global scale. \u201cYou could leave the American dream and come build something in India which is world-class,\u201d he recalls. Soon afterwards, he did exactly that.<\/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-1022219","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\/1022219","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=1022219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022249,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022219\/revisions\/1022249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}