Industry trends, designing for international markets and being mission-driven: a conversation with M.R. Rangaswami

Our CEO, Fiona Smythe, sat down with M.R. Rangaswami for a chat this week. M.R. is multi-talented: he is a software executive, investor, entrepreneur, corporate eco-strategy expert, community builder and philanthropist. He co-founded Sand Hill Group, an investment and consulting group which made several notable investments, produced the Enterprise and Software conference series and launched SandHill.com, an online resource for software business strategy. In 2007, M.R. founded the Corporate Eco Forum, an organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness of eco-strategies at Global 500 companies. In 2012 he founded Indiaspora to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage.

They talked about some of the industry trends driving Expanded Access, designing software for international markets, and the impact of being mission driven when building a team and running a business. You can read the full text of their conversation at Sandhill.com.