'Selling Daksh was a mistake'
It has been six years since Daksh, one of India’s fastest growing startups, was sold to IBM.
March 28, 2012 / 14:03 IST
Sanjeev Aggarwal
Although Daksh is a part of IBM now, it has always stayed close to my heart. I was born in 1960 near Jalandhar, and my father was in the judiciary. I was the youngest of four siblings and studied engineering and MBA from Punjab University. Between my engineering and MBA degrees, I started a company in 1981 in the area of computer training.We were early movers in what would later turn into a large industry. Computer training was very aspirational but my father wanted me to take up a saner career, which was to do my MBA and take up a job. There was a lot of resistance and I had to finally shut the company within a year of starting it. After my MBA, I worked in various Indian companies for about 10 years. My first stint was as a management trainee at DCM. I also spent considerable time at Thermax where I was spearheading the company
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