“Go Kiss the World”

This is the latest book by Subroto Bagchi (co-founder of MindTree) and the book I read non-stop last weekend. The book is very interesting and inspiring to say the least. This is one of those typical-weekend read or a travel read book which you can finish in few hours in a single read. Definitely good read especially for budding entrepreneurs and IT guys as well.

Subroto takes the reader through his life right from his birth to his school/college days to his career growth including his experiences with MindTree as a co-founder to his recent title “The Gardener”. He touches upon each of his experiences with a lesson learnt and how that experience in the hindsight made him a better person and an entrepreneur. There are lots of things to learn for us from his experiences that he narrates in the book.

He has divided the book into3 parts and from what I remember, part 1 deals with his birth and early days, part 2 deals with his earlier career and dilemmas and part 3 deals with the Wipro experience and his experience at MindTree. Part 1 is bit a drag, part 2 is ok but part 3 is very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed that part where he talks in his experience with WIPRO and how they grew the company from a small firm to what we know of WIPRO today. Overall a good book to read but I would strongly suggest entrepreneurs to read his earlier book “The High performance Entrepreneur” which I consider a Bible (or a Blue book) for Indian software companies.

Whenever I read Bagchi’s books, always wonder why NRN (or other Infy co-founders) is not writing such a book – alas none has come out so far and I remember reading once that all the founders have made a promise that they would not pen a book about their Infy experiences – what a shame that we never get to read the real experience of a truly global Indian company’s birth, rise and rise.