Dhiraj Rajaram

Dhiraj Rajaram, the Founder and CEO of Mu Sigma is currently responsible for making one of the biggest global data companies in the world. Mu Sigma is an Indian multinational data analytics company, which is currently helping 125 of ‘Fortune 500’ companies like Microsoft, Pfizer, Dell, etc. in examining, uncovering hidden patterns and data information via their unique data analysis process. Dhiraj is not only the person behind this chatur idea in big data analytics, but he is also the person who built Mu Sigma from ground up. So right from securing seed funding to aligning organizational resources, building teams and to secure many 'Fortune 500' customers, he is leading Mu Sigma right from the front.

He glowingly says that if it wasn’t for a small, but disruptive company which moved from Albuquerque to Seattle to provide its operating system to IBM, we probably had to wait a few more years for a technical data-crunching machine to become a personal computer.” It was Microsoft, which was one of the key players responsible for bringing the ‘Personal Computer Revolution’, Ironically it was also the Mu Sigma’s first client when they started!

As per Dhiraj Rajaram, an entrepreneur needs to go through the ‘three grade test’ and not only excel in it but master it. The first-grade test is to achieve ‘Clarity!’ An entrepreneur needs to have absolute clarity of what he or she is doing and why he or she is doing it. Dhiraj unabashedly accepts that his company did not have the complete clarity when it started. In spite of having the uncertainty of not knowing the entire prospect, Mu Sigma was doing that one thing which was compensating for their lack of clarity. It was seeking clarity every day! It was the habit of relentlessly asking yourself every day that ‘Can we have more clarity!’ Once you have achieved the clarity the second grade test is ‘having the focus,’ it’s not just about having the focus to build your product better, it’s the focus to say ‘No,’ to the irrelevant things that come along as you move ahead. In addition, once you have accomplished and understood both the levels.