This past August, I interviewed the new majority owner of the Sacramento Kings. This article published in the October 24, 2014 issue of India Abroad as the issue’s cover feature. To view it on the India Abroad platform, click here.
Vivek Ranadivé has never been afraid to dream big.
As a teenager freshly accepted to MIT, he flew from Mumbai to the United States with less than $100 and visions of the first-ever moon landing on his mind.
It was the 1970s, and the Indian government was not allowing students to exchange rupees for American dollars, which Ranadivé needed to attend school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But his tenacity was born early in life: Prior to his trip he had camped out overnight in front of the Reserve Bank of India and convinced the office to allow him to exchange just enough currency to pay first-semester tuition costs.
Ranadivé wanted to be a part of the population that did big things.
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