An appeal to the graduating MBA class of 2022!

Vish Sahasranamam
Forge Innovation & Ventures
2 min readMar 21, 2022

On the occasion of the Forge.Foundation Day — our 7th birthday, I am making an appeal to the graduating MBA class of 2022, making a strong case for them to leverage Forge as their point of entry into India’s Innovation economy easily the world’s biggest opportunity to create innovation led impact.

For India to race towards the $5 Trillion GDP mark the growth and acceleration of India’s innovation economy is most critical. Startups are the engines of any nation’s innovation economy. They combine the forces of entrepreneurial innovation and venture capital, while harnessing futuristic technology and future-ready talent to bring about transformation.

India is at the cusp of an entrepreneurial revolution and the next generation of world class companies coming out of India are the startups of today. They all around us at different stages of maturity led from the front by ingenious innovators and ambitious entrepreneurs with bold vision and big dreams.

Forge (www.forgeforward.in) — the vertically integrated incubator company I have built over the past 7 years, is committed to the cause of powering India’s innovation economy in the industrial digital age by bringing government and corporate industry to engage with startups as innovation and growth partners.

With our vertically integrated capacity spanning industrial innovation labs, strategic advisory services, financial resources, program management capabilities, and partner networks, Forge implements national scale programs across the innovation, incubation, acceleration and investment spectrum.

Today we have over 100 startups in our portfolio that are developing products that have the potential to create or dominate markets in a wide array of sectors ranging from defence, aerospace and space to advanced manufacturing, core industrial operations, urban infrastructure, future mobility and advanced communication systems.

As the newest addition to India’s massive pool of skilled manpower in business management you have a massive role to play in shaping the future of India’s economy.

A career in Forge will not only give you a better point of entry into India’s innovation economy but also serve as a platform to charter your own career roadmap in this coveted space of entrepreneurial innovation, startups, and venture capital. All the while strengthening and advancing your capabilities in the key strategic, techno managerial, financial and operational functions, which are the most crucial skills that will help you emerge a winner, a pioneer, a leader and a visionary in the future.

We welcome the graduate candidates of MBA 2022 to give a shot at 2 roles:

Program Manager, Forge.Ventures (https://bit.ly/manager-forge_ventures)

Program Lead, Forge.Ventures (https://bit.ly/lead-forge_ventures)

I invite you to express your intent to explore career opportunities in Forge. To do so you may fill up this Candidate Registration Form, providing us the necessary details so we can take this forward along with and for you.

Once again my best wishes to you for a bright and prosperous future ahead in your career. My congratulations in advance for your successful graduation, and do extend my wishes to your teachers, family and friends!

Hopefully I will meet you at the other end of this recruitment process and welcome you into the Forge family! So long!

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