| Published: Friday, June 27, 2003
TiE president Sridar
Iyengar discusses the organization and tackles the complex issue of offshore
outsourcing
Founded in 1992 as a way for
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of Indus descent -- those with a heritage rooted in
the greater Indian subcontinent -- to help one another's technology aspirations,
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) quickly became one of the valley's most vital
networking venues.
Now the Santa
Clara-based organization boasts 45 chapters and 6,000 members worldwide. Its
annual TiEcon convention has featured such tech heavyweights as Cisco Systems
Inc. CEO John Chambers and Vinod Khosla, the celebrated venture capitalist with
VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
TiE's newest
president, Sridar Iyengar, took some time out of his busy schedule during last
month's TiEcon event at the Santa Clara Convention Center to speak with Biz Ink
reporter Steve Tanner.
Iyengar talks about
the changing face of TiE, the plight of the entrepreneur and concerns
surrounding the growing trend in outsourcing U.S. tech jobs overseas.
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