Born in Kumbakonam, raised in Chennai and educated at Madras Institute of
Technology under Anna University, Chandrasekhar, along with BV Jagdeesh co-found
Exodus, the worldwide leader in the Web hosting space. The company had one of
the most successful IPOs in 1998. Chandrasekhar was honored as the Ernst &
Young Northern California entrepreneur of the year in 1999. In the same year, he
co-found e4e. Fouress was the first company he found. He also founded,
Jamcracker, which literally means a person stationed along the river to look out
for potential log jams. Jamcracker plans to replicate that on the Internet. In
1992, when Chandrasekhar was left with just two months on his work visa, he
floated his software consulting business in his two-bedroom apartment in
Cupertino, paying $20 a month for an Internet connection. Chandrasekhar began
his career with Wipro in 1983 and later joined Rolta India as country manager
based in US.
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