{"id":963811,"date":"2025-09-24T08:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963811"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:59:52","slug":"t-mobiles-srini-gopalan-dylan-fan-runner-and-an-unpretentious-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/t-mobiles-srini-gopalan-dylan-fan-runner-and-an-unpretentious-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile&#8217;s Srini Gopalan: Dylan fan, runner, and an unpretentious leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An obsessive runner, a Bob Dylan fan, and a walking sports almanac \u2013 that\u2019s how friends describe Srini Gopalan, the newly appointed chief executive of US telecom major T-Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Gopalan, a telecom industry veteran who consistently climbed the corporate ladder, remains grounded in old passions on the personal front, according to his friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no two sides to him, what you see is what you get,\u201d said Shubhajit Sen, former CMO of Micromax who has known Gopalan since they were quizzers in Delhi\u2019s school circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obsessive runner, a Bob Dylan fan, and a walking sports almanac \u2013 that\u2019s how friends describe Srini Gopalan, the newly appointed chief executive of US telecom major T-Mobile. Gopalan, a telecom industry veteran who consistently climbed the corporate ladder, remains grounded in old passions on the personal front, according to his friends. \u201cThere are no two sides to him, what you see is what you get,\u201d said Shubhajit Sen, former CMO of Micromax who has known Gopalan since they were quizzers in Delhi\u2019s school circuit.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963811","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=963811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}