The accidental entrepreneur whose app protects 12,000 housing societies

Vijay Arisetty, who turned entrepreneur some years after quitting the IAF following a mishap, has developed MyGate, one of India's most successful security apps

One would hardly expect an Air Force pilot to quit his job, do a 180-degree career shift landing jobs in companies like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, and then getting bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. But that is just what happened to Vijay Arisetty, when a shoulder injury playing handball in 2011 put paid to a 10-year career flying sophisticated helicopters for the IAF. 

Once out of the Air force, he got into ISB, Hyderabad, from where he got picked up by Goldman Sachs, a company he spent a few years with at a senior level. Arisetty would then