Bicycle crankshafts to satellites: Mittal's journey
Sunil Bharti Mittal founded Bharti Enterprises in 1976, starting with a small manufacturing unit in Ludhiana that produced bicycle parts. Fifty years later, Mittal leads a conglomerate with Bharti Airtel as its flagship, now one of the world's largest telecommunications companies. His journey has involved bold bets ahead of market trends, setbacks due to policy changes, and three major crises that Mittal refers to as Bharti's Mahabharatas.
As the group marks its 50th anniversary, Mittal plans to transform Airtel from a telecommunications operator into a digitally enabled technology company, encompassing artificial intelligence, sovereign cloud, digital finance, and satellite services.
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