About
Entrepreneur, mountaineer, and explorer of civilisations. Founder of nine technology companies across three decades. At home in a boardroom, on a mountain ridge, or inside an ancient temple. The tension between building and exploring is not a contradiction — it is the point.
Companies
The Builder
Nine companies, three continents, thirty years. Healthcare, AI, legal, manufacturing, fintech, energy. Each venture a different problem. The same temperament: identify the hard climb, commit fully, build the team to reach the summit.
Continents
The Mountaineer
Altitude strips away the unnecessary. It demands clarity of mind, economy of movement, and absolute reliance on your team. The lessons from the mountains are not metaphors — they are operational principles.
Expeditions
The Explorer
Five expeditions across India, Egypt, and the Himalayas — deep immersions into how ancient cultures understood architecture, energy, and leadership. Not tourism. Inquiry.
Nine companies across three continents over thirty years. From patented hardware in Germany to pioneering AI in Silicon Valley — a serial builder who has never stopped shipping.
The mountains are not a hobby. They are a discipline. Every summit demands total commitment — of body, of mind, of team. It is the clearest mirror a leader has.
Five expeditions into some of the world's oldest civilisations — Tamil Nadu, Egypt, Ladakh. Not pilgrimages. Inquiries into architecture, history, and what ancient cultures understood about the human condition.
Ideas distilled from three decades of company-building, mountaineering, and deep immersion in history and culture. Not philosophy for its own sake — ideas that actually change how you lead.
I have spent thirty years building companies in technology — and an equal number of years learning that the best ideas come from places that have nothing to do with technology.
Vinay Chandra