Ram Shriram
Ram Shriram
Kavitark Ram Shriram is a founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Shriram was president. Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
almost capital chasing deals issues money venture
There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
founding
Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.
coming costs difficult energetic face indians lots market products services situation work
Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
happening produced technical
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
died early guess raised
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
beautiful blue coming ethnic finally move sky time warm
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
business decisions help people run
I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
features few fully lacking though
You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.
applied business gotten
All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
people produce reach role ways
You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
america companies lead needs opportunity sure wants
If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.
believe certainly education mainly
My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.
best business
My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
country wireless
No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.