Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal is the most recent alumnus of India’s prestigious specialized universities appointed to head a multi-billion-dollar US tech firm, and Shivani Nandgaonkar wants to follow in his footsteps.

The 22-year-outdated scholar at the Indian Institute of Technologies Bombay — Agrawal’s alma mater — has presently been recruited by Google to turn into a single of the thousands of IIT graduates at major American tech corporations.

“When I read about Parag, I was so happy,” she reported. “A person IITian is also CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai. So this is my (stepping) stone now.”

Twitter’s Agrawal is the youngest chief executive in the S&P 500 at just 37.

Like Google-mum or dad Alphabet’s 49-12 months-aged CEO Sundar Pichai, he left India right after his IIT degree to pursue a postgrad in the United States right before doing work at various American providers.

Other Indians at the greatest company tech echelons contain IBM’s Arvind Krishna and Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora — each IIT alumni — along with Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Shantanu Narayen at Adobe.

Executives and industry experts say that outside of the South Asian nation’s sheer measurement, the phenomenon is owing to various thrust-pull things and skillsets which include a lifestyle of dilemma-solving, the English language, and relentless difficult do the job.

IIT graduate and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla believes that after escalating up with many communities, customs and languages, Indians have the ability to “navigate complex situations”.

“Educational levels of competition in India and societal chaos can help hone their capabilities in addition to the demanding complex schooling at the IITs,” the billionaire enterprise capitalist informed AFP.

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Silicon Valley demands complex experience, managing numerous communities, and entrepreneurship in the deal with of uncertainty from its best executives.

“In innovation, you have to be ready to split the guidelines, you are fearless. And… you can not survive a day in India without the need of getting to break one rule or the other or working with incompetent forms or corruption,” said Indian-American academic Vivek Wadhwa.

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