Ranadivé grew up in the Juhu area of Mumbai, India, and was the youngest of three children, in a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family. He studied at the Bombay International School, located at Babulnath, Mumbai.[5][6] He is the nephew of the Indian Communist leaders Balkrishna Trimbak Ranadive and Ahilya Rangnekar.[7][8][9][10][11] At 16, Ranadivé was accepted to MIT, but in the 1970s the Indian government did not release foreign currency for citizens to study abroad.[12] Ranadivé talked his way into the office of the Reserve Bank of India and got the required foreign exchange for one quarter of the tuition.[12]
After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from MIT,[6] he obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983.[13][14] While at MIT, Ranadivé started his first company, a UNIX consulting company.[12] He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit and Fortune Systems.[15]
Teknekron Software Systems
Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital to Ranadivé in 1985 to found Teknekron Software Systems.[16]
TIBCO
In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and Reuters.[17]
Bow Capital
In 2016, Ranadivé founded Bow Capital,[18] an early-stage startup investment firm in partnership with the University of California Regents.[19] Among their investments are Skillit (platform), Eversight, Workramp, Jerry.ai,[20] and Flex.[21]
NBA
Golden State Warriors
In 2010, Ranadivé became the co-owner and vice chairman of the Golden State Warriors, making him the first person of Indian descent to co-own an NBA franchise.[22]
Sacramento Kings
On 21 March 2013, it was announced that Ranadivé had joined Ronald Burkle and Mark Mastrov to attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings. In order for Ranadivé to purchase the Kings, he had to sell his share of the Golden State Warriors.[23] On 16 May 2013, it was announced that the group reached an agreement with the Maloof family to purchase 65% of the Kings for approximately $348 million.[24] The NBA approved the sale on 28 May.[25] Ranadivé made waves in 2014 when he proposed a style of play that included his team keeping one player on offense the entire time, creating a 4-on-5 defense on the other end.[26]
Works
Published works
Work
Year
Author(s)
The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-Time Technology[27][28]
The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough
2011
Vivek Ranadivé
Personal life
Ranadivé and his former wife, Deborah Addicott, have three children: Aneel, Andre, and Anjali.[2][30]
Anjali is an R&B singer-songwriter.[31] She wrote and released her first single, "We Turn Up" in April 2014.[32][33] Her second single was called "Nobody" and features Tyga.[34][35] Anjali goes by the stage name "Nani", which means maternal grandmother in Hindi, as she has always respected elderly figures in her life. Anjali, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a marine science degree, founded Jaws & Paws,[34] a marine and wildlife conservation nonprofit that spreads awareness for the conservation of sharks, polar bears, and tigers.[36][37] In October 2015, she received the 2015 Paul Walker Ocean Leadership Award from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.[38] She was also part of the 2022NBA All-Star Celebrity Game.[39]
Ranadivé coached his daughter's 12-and-under girls' basketball team despite, according to his own contention, never having touched a basketball until he reached his 40s.[40] The story of Ranadivé's team's unlikely success was told by author Malcolm Gladwell in the pages of The New Yorker, and later included in Gladwell's 2013 book, David and Goliath.[41]
From 2016 to 2020, Ranadivé donated $55,731 to Democratic candidates and causes.[42]
^"Red Salute To Comrade Ahilya". People's Democracy. Vol. 33, no. 16. 26 April 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2024. Ahilya Rangnekar was born in Pune in 1922 in a Chandrasena Kayastha Prabhu family. Her father Trimbak Ranadive was deeply influenced by the social reformers of his times...(she was a trained classical singer, and had a lovely voice which she had often used in street performances to sell the Party paper on Bombay's streets along with her more well-known brother, the radical communist leader and trade union fighter, B T Ranadive
^"sactown magazine". She strongly believed that Ranadivés had an obligation to fight for social justice because of their caste (the Hindu designation of social rank). The family is Kshatriya—born to be warriors and rulers{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
^"Silicon Valley hotshot scripts NBA plan for India". Finally, when asked about his memories of his grand uncle, the late Indian communist leader BT Ranadivé, he says laughing, "I know he wanted to make people's lives better, which is what I also want to do, but in a different way."
