Infosys History (My Dream Company)

 

 

                   Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981.The first years of Infosys were not smooth. Most of the founders -- Murthy, Nilekani, Dinesh, Shibulal and Gopalkrishnan -- were into writing codes. And they wanted to make an impact in the American market. 

         So Infosys got its first joint venture partners in Kurt Salmon Associates. Gopalakrishnan, who had spent time working in the United States, was the public face of the KSA-Infosys venture in America. But the joint venture collapsed in 1989, leaving Infosys in the lurch.
Gopalakrishnan relives the memories of those days. "We had nothing after eight years of trying to bring up a company. Those who studied with us had cars and houses," he says.
 

                 The collapse of the KSA joint venture led Infosys to its first crisis. The company was on the verge of collapse. One of the founder-partners -- Ashok Arora -- was dejected with the way the company was going, and decided to quit.
The others did not know what to do. But Murthy had the courage of conviction. 'If you all want to leave, you can. But I am going to stick (with it) and make it,' Murthy told them.
The other partners -- Nilekani, Gopalakrishnan, Shibulal, Dinesh and Raghavan -- decided to stay. And thus began to germinate the seeds of Infosys' enormous growth

Infosys in Numbers.............

Year of Incorporation : 1981
Became a public limited company in India :
1992
ISO 9001/TickIT Certification :
1993
Attained SEI-CMM Level 4 :
1997
Listed on NASDAQ :
1999
Crossed $100 million in annual revenues :
1999
Attained SEI-CMM Level 5 :
1999
Crossed $400 million in revenues :
2001
Crossed $ half a billion in revenues :
2002
Crossed $ billion in revenues :
2004
Crossed $ 2 billion in revenues :
2006

Crossed $ 6 billion in revenues :

2011(present)