From Dehradun to San Jose
In 2013, Ashish Garg co-founded Eltropy, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that enables businesses to connect with their customers on SMS (short messaging service) and text messaging apps.
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Growing up, not many of us knew what we wanted to do in life. But Ashish Garg, who grew up in a middle-class household in Dehradun, always wanted to become an engineer and start his own company.
Learning the spirit of entrepreneurship and perseverance from his father, he graduated with a degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
But the turning point came when Hotmail, founded by BITS alum Sabeer Bhatia, got sold to Microsoft for $500 million. Ashish thought, “If he can do it, why can’t I?”
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How important are computer-aided design (CAD) & product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies today? How have these technologies been affected by the pandemic? What is the future of experiential design and innovation? These pertinent questions were at the forefront of an insightful executive meeting between YourStory Business Editor Vishal Krishna, Olivier Sappin, CEO, CATIA at Dassault Systèmes and Eric Bienvenu, VP, Global Sales & CoE , SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes.
Here are some of the key takeaways from this discussion.
The pandemic effect
Both the executives stressed on how Dassault Systèmes was fortunate to have experienced the current world of ‘the new normal’ much before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Oliver said that the company had been working with startups, which gave both the entities an advantage of starting from scratch or ‘a blank sheet of paper with no legacy.’ “Right from the start, we adopted a practice where everyone involved was online an