In today’s world of frenzied valuations, oversubscribed funding rounds, and
focus on becoming a unicorn, does building a good company matter?
Is it worth for founders to focus on their growth? Do values, culture and leadership matter or is it only capital that matters?

In this talk, Shyamal Kumar, Founder & CEO of Lavelle Network, shares 3 principles to build a good company and become an exemplary leader from his journey as a leader. Shyamal Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Lavelle Networks,
the fastest growing Software Defined Network (SDN) upstart in Asia. Lavelle Networks has built the largest SD-WAN networks in the world from 2017 – 2020 and is also the world’s first network appliance platform, driven only using cloud native REST APIs.
As a data networks product leader, and having led several platforms spanning data center, enterprise, and service provider networks, he is passionate about embracing SDN and cloud technologies to bring simplicity and performance to data networks.
Shyamal believes that today’s cloud first, digital driven – enterprises can take their business anywhere, as long as the network is available.
Shyamal is a graduate of BITS, Pilani and has been in the data networking space for the last 18 years leading products at Tata Elxsi,
Juniper Networks, Inkra Networks, Telsima Communications, Riverstone Networks, NetContinuum and Versa Networks among other companies.
He is active in several technology entrepreneurship campus courses and is passionate about software product startups. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx