KAVITARK RAM SHRIRAM

Born                : Chennai, India

Hometown      : Mountain View, California United States

Net Worth      : $1.45 billion

Kavitark Ram Shriram, 52, is the founding board member of Google and one of the first investors in Google. He is called the Sherpa of Google not because he wrote a check for 100,000.00 $ for the Google’s growth but was actually involved in the formation of the DNA of the company. Incidentally Ram Shriram an Angel investor and Bechtolsheim were invited by the professor Jeff Ullman to look at their demo and back the two guys who were just 23 & 24 on their new development which has made sensation in the world today.

Google grew from a humble 10000 search queries a day to 500000 search queries from 1998 to 1999.and found a major investment from two diametrically opposite companies Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for 25 million $ and rest is History. Google’s amazing features and performance has contineouly enabled the Company to grow in terms of employees, investors and most importantly users. When Google officially became the World’s largest search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lary Page had this to say.

Kavtark Ram Shriram is 258th richest American according to forbes list now not only because he is one of the biggest shareholders in Google but also because of Business Ventures in Plaxo, Yodlee, Tellme Podshow and Zazzle. He currently owns 3.4 million shares of Google. He is a leading angel investor in Silicon Valley.

Kavitark Ram Shriram, an I Indian Internet entrepreneur, worth $1.7 Billion.

Kavitark Shriram ranked 583 at Forbes worlds list of billionaires 2007, ranked 677 in 2008 and 601 in 2009.

“From what I see, consumers are feeling a little more confident, and if they feel like they’re getting a good value, they’re willing to spend money,”

Shriram’s magical words for success are,” There is no magical formula for success; rather it comes from continual small “Block and tackle” moves. Ram’s experience with Junglee before Google venture has helped him evolve a great worthiness for the platform.