Connected was headed by Sachin Rekhi, a former founder of Anywhere.fm which was acquired by Imeem.

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Engineers such as Vinod Dham started creating breakthrough technologies such as the Pentium chip, and entrepreneurs such as Kanwal Rekhi and Vinod Khosla co-founded companies like Excelan and Sun Microsystems.

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Rekhi has an open-door policy for would-be entrepreneurs.

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