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After transforming a traditional manufacturing firm into software major, Ganesh Natarajan is stepping down as the Chief Executive Officer of the Pune-based Zensar Technologies on April 30. But he is going to make a new beginning. He is going to start a social start-up around September.
Refusing it to indicate the idea, he says it is going to have potential to scale up in India and can be replicated globally. He is going to build a team before formalising the idea for the start-up.
Ganesh Natarajan led the team that transformed the ₹40-crore 400-employee firm into an entity with a turnover of about ₹3,000 crore and 8,300 employees.
He was here on Wednesday for the launch of the book From Start-Up to Global Success –The Zensar Story that he co-authored it with Prameela Kalive at the T-Hub, the start-up incubator.
Ganesh Natarajan feels that the new generation of start-ups must be led by the matured industry leaders.
“Enough of business-to-consumer start-ups. You find an app in the west and you have it here.
“There is a limit for copy cat ideas. See, there are only so many things that you can buy online and so many apps that you can download on your phones,” he says.
“There are lots of areas that need to be focussed now. Things like healthcare, education and governance need a focus.
“My goal is to make something out of India that can be scaled up globally,” Ganesh Natarajan says.
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