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Coffee mogul VG Siddhartha, the businessman who brewed fortunes

People familiar with Siddhartha vouch for his simplicity and self-depreciating style

VG Siddhartha
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VG Siddhartha

Debasis Mohapatra Bengaluru
This report was first published on January 24, 2019. At the time, Cafe Coffee Day founder V G Siddhartha — reported to have gone missing on July 30, 2019 — had been looking for prospective buyers for his stake in information technology company Mindtree.
In the winter of 1993, when Infosys, now India’s second largest IT services company, was getting a cold response to its IPO on Dalal Street, it was V G Siddhartha who, apart from Vallabh Bhansali of Enam Securities and Morgan Stanley, underwrote a fair chunk of the float. It is another matter that Siddhartha didn’t hold
Topics : MindTree