An entrepreneur factory in a desert: how BITS Pilani is churning out startup founders

The year was 2005. A young man was desperately trying to book a bus ticket from Bengaluru to visit his family in Hyderabad for Diwali. But he had to return disappointed as all buses on the route were full and not a single ticket was available. An engineer by training, he took it as a tricky problem that he could try to solve. Without wasting any time, he rang up a couple of his batchmates — the ones with whom he had spent his boisterous college