Arvind Rao recalls the time in early-2002 when OnMobile, the company that he had founded with friend Mouli Raman two years before, almost shut shop. The two had met when Rao worked for a private equity fund and was negotiating for a venture with Raman at Infosys Technologies. They clicked and decided to float a business together. But now things looked bad.

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