Vivek Ranadive

Vivek Yeshwant is an Indian – American business executive, engineer, author, speaker, and philanthropist. He is also the founder and former CEO of TIBCO Software, a multi-billion real-time computing company. He is also associated with Teknekron Software Systems and is a co-owner and chairman of NBA’s Sacramento Kings.

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Biography and Early Life

Vivek was born on 7th October 1957, in the Juhu area of Mumbai, India. He was the youngest of three children to his father, Yeshwant Ranadive, but unfortunately, his mother’s name is unknown. He is also the nephew of Indian communist leaders Balkrishna Trimbak Ranadive and Ahilya Rangnekar.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Vivek Ranadive in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, Vivek Ranadive’s age is 63 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 7 October 1957. Though, he is 5′ 5″ in feet and inches and 169 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 174 lbs in Pound and 79kg in Kilograms.

Education

He had his schooling at Bombay International School, Babulnath, Mumbai. He even had an MIT offer, but he was not able to crash on the opportunity at that time as the Indian government didn’t release foreign currency for citizens studying abroad. He then talked his way into the RBI Office and got the required exchange for one-quarter of tuition. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT he went to Harvard Business School for an MBA.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Vivek was married to Deborah Addicott and has three children Aneel Ranadive, Andre Ranadive, and Anjali World. But the couple is currently divorced. Vivek also coached his daughter’s 12 and under girl’s basketball team. Vivek has also been an active donor of the Democratic Party as he donated $55,731 to Democratic candidates and causes between 2016 to 2020. He also criticized the recent attack at the US Capitol by protestors.

Is Vivek Ranadive Gay?

NO … as per the sources searched for the Article, there is no source conforming to this. He was married, though he is currently divorced. He also has three children, so the claim stands invalid, and his sexual orientation lies Straight.

Professional Career

Vivek started his first company during college time only, and it was UNIX, a consulting company. He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A – Com Linkabit, and Fortune Systems. He founded Teknekron Software Systems after he was provided $250,000 in seed capital by Teknekron Corp. in 1985.

He then used his funding from Cisco and Reuters for coming up with TIBCO Software Inc. Vivek founded ‘Bow Capital’ which was an early age startup investment firm in partnership with The University of California, Regents.

Vivek is also very fond and interested in Basketball, especially the NBA. In 2010, he became the co-owner and vice-chairman of Golden State Warriors, which also made him the first person of Indian descent to co-own an NBA Franchise. Later, he turned away towards Sacramento Kings, for which he had to sell his shares of the Golden State Warriors.

After, that he joined Ronald Burkle and Mark Mastrov for purchasing 65% of the team for $348 million after reaching an agreement with the ‘Maloof Family’. In 2014, Vivek proposed a style of keeping one player on offense the entire time, creating 4-on-5 defense on the other end.

Vivek has also been an author with his three books. ‘The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-Time Technology’ (1999), ‘The Power to Predict’ (2006) and ‘The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future – Just Enough’ (2011) are the books written by him based on technologies and the evolving world.

Awards

Vivek has not received any award as of now. But there are many of his works that deserve appreciation. Getting on to MIT despite financial problems and difficulties is not easy, and neither is setting up some successful companies.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Vivek Ranadive in 2021

Vivek has been a successful entrepreneur and owner at the NBA. During this course, he has earned decent sums of money from all his investments and through his team. As of 2021, his net worth stands at $750 million, and we have to say that is a severe amount.

At the conclusion, we can say that Vivek Ranadive is a very famous and successful entrepreneur, business executive, and author. He started off with a simple and humble background. Despite facing financial constraints and difficulties, he was able to reach on to MIT and Harvard, which is commendable and inspirational. He has founded some successful companies that have revolutionized the whole technical arena.

He has also been an owner of the NBA Team, and he wishes to bring Bollywood, Sports, and Glamour together. After, all this he has a whopping net worth of $750 million, and we have to say that he perfectly deserves that. We would like to wish him all the very best in his future endeavors.