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Vivek Yeshwant Ranadivé (/viˈvɛk rɑːnəˈdiːveɪ/; born 7 October 1957) is an Indian American business executive, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist. Ranadivé is the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of TIBCO Software, a multi-billion dollar real-time computing company, and of Teknekron Software Systems. Ranadivé is also a co-owner and chairman of the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings.
Early life and career
Ranadivé grew up in the Juhu area of Mumbai, India, and was the youngest of three children. He studied at the Bombay International School, located at Babulnath, Mumbai. He is the nephew of the Indian Communist leaders Balkrishna Trimbak Ranadive and Ahilya Rangnekar. At 16, Ranadivé was accepted to MIT, but in the 1970s the Indian government did not release foreign currency for citizens to study abroad. Ranadivé talked his way into the office of the Reserve Bank of India and got the required foreign exchange for one quarter of the tuition.
After earning bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT, he obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983. While at MIT, Ranadivé started his first company, a UNIX consulting company. He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit and Fortune Systems.
Teknekron Software Systems
Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital to Ranadivé in 1985 to found Teknekron Software Systems.
TIBCO
In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and Reuters.
Bow Capital
In 2016, Ranadivé founded Bow Capital, an early-stage startup investment firm in partnership with the University of California Regents.
NBA
Golden State Warriors
In 2010, Ranadivé became the co-owner and vice chairman of the Golden State Warriors, making him the first person of Indian descent to co-own an NBA franchise.
Sacramento Kings
On 21 March 2013, it was announced that Ranadivé had joined Ronald Burkle and Mark Mastrov to attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings. In order for Ranadivé to purchase the Kings, he had to sell his share of the Golden State Warriors. On 16 May 2013, it was announced that the group reached an agreement with the Maloof family to purchase 65% of the Kings for approximately $348 million. The NBA approved the sale on 28 May. Ranadivé made waves in 2014 when he proposed a style of play that included his team keeping one player on offense the entire time, creating a 4-on-5 defense on the other end.
Works
| Work | Year | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-Time Technology | 1999 | Vivek Ranadivé |
| The Power to Predict | 2006 | Vivek Ranadivé |
| The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough | 2011 | Vivek Ranadivé |
Personal life
Ranadivé and his former wife, Deborah Addicott, have three children: Aneel, Andre, and Anjali.
Ranadivé coached his daughter's 12-and-under girls' basketball team despite, according to his own contention, never having touched a basketball until he reached his 40s.The story of Ranadivé's team's unlikely success was told by author Malcolm Gladwell in the pages of The New Yorker, and later included in Gladwell's 2013 book, David and Goliath.
