Regret quitting as chairman of Infosys: Narayana Murthy

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Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy opened up on his biggest personal and professional regrets and said he regrets quitting as Infosys chairman.
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Murthy said he should have listened to other co-founders in 2014 before stepping down as the chairman.

Murhty recounted, “A lot of my founder colleagues told me not to leave Infosys in 2014, to stay a few years.”

“Generally, I find that I am a very emotional person. A lot of my decisions are based on idealism and probably, I should have listened to them," he told CNBC TV18.

However, Murthy did clarify that he did not miss being in the campus daily.

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In 2014, 33 years after starting Infosys, Murthy bid farewell to the company he had set up with six other co-founders.

Murthy had the longest run of about 21 years as CEO before passing on the baton to Nandan Nilekani and then S Gopalakrishnan and S D Shibulal. In October 2014, former SAP board member Vishal Sikka took over as CEO.

In the interview, the IT veteran termed the listing of the country's second largest software services firm on Nasdaq as his biggest success story.

"I think sitting on those high stools at Nasdaq when we got listed, when we became the first Indian company to be listed on Nasdaq, and borrowing the words of Neil Armstrong to say that it is a small step for Nasdaq, but a giant leap for Infosys and the Indian software industry. I think that was the best," he said.

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