Welcome to Episode #29 of: The Journey Podcast with Simarpreet Singh (TJWS). Today's episode features the legendary MR.MANIPAL DHARIWAL, the the Co-founder & CEO of NETSMARTZ. Manipal leads a team of over 1500 professionals in 10+ global locations. A First Generation Serial Entrepreneur passionate about turning startups into scale-ups. He is responsible for contributing business investments to over 100 million dollars in Northern India, successfully created over 1500 direct jobs and around 3500 indirect jobs. He is the Founder & Chapter President of the Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC), Advisor of TEDx Chandigarh, Chairman of IT & ITES Entrepreneurship/Startup Committee (ASSOCHAM), and Charter Member of TiE. Today, Netsmartz has been ranked among the top 100 fastest-growing companies in Rochester, New York. Join us in this episode where Manipal talks about his journey of building Netsmartz, IT industry in India, business investments, startup accelerator program, manpower challenges, youth of Punjab, job creation, upskilling & reskilling, startup funding, AI & much more. Stay tuned and watch the full episode. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 5:02 Early Life & Education 12:50 How Netsmartz was founded?18:50 Y2K : IT Boom in India28:55 Challenges of Product Companies33:00 Why Indian IT Companies are Outsourcing?36:50 'Drive Karo India'39:00 What Punjab Needs : Ask the CM46:43 GCCs & Startup Accelerators54:24 Which jobs will AI take up?1:01:08 Vision for Netsmartz, Punjab & India SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & COMMENT to engage in an interesting journey. @simarpreethsingh Reach me at Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/simarpreeths/ Twitter handle : https://twitter.com/simarpreeths LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/simarpreethsingh/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/simarpreet.singh07 Keep following my channel for more such updates. About the Podcast "The Journey with Simarpreet Singh" is a talk show where we discuss life, family, emotions, childhood, success, failure, and more. That’s the thing with this podcast - it’s for everybody. All the episodes and the guests that we have recorded - our intent is to talk about their journey, get to know every aspect of these inspiring people and in the process, if anyone of you get inspired, or pick something from someone’s life, our work is done. ____ #thejourneypodcastwithsimarpreetsingh #thejourneypodcast #podcast #TJWS #SimarpreetSingh #Hartek #Manipaldhariwal #netsmartz #itcompanies #IT #informationtechnology #software #SaaS #itbusiness #technology #drivereducation #campaign #GCC #SACC #b2b #startups #investing #growth #businesssuccess #expansion #business #inspiration #motivation