India Herald calls Kunwer Sachdev a “history maker” — a lower-middle-class 15-year-old who sold pens, ran cable TV, then walked away from both to build Su-Kam into an Indian multinational.
India Herald’s profile of Kunwer Sachdev hits the same beats every serious writer on Indian entrepreneurship eventually reaches: selling pens as a teenager, a stint in a sales department, a cable-TV business, and then the deliberate decision to walk away from all of it to build Su-Kam Power Systems.
A serial entrepreneur from 15
India Herald’s framing is that Sachdev did not wait for capital or credentials to start being an entrepreneur. Coming from a lower-middle-class family, he was cycling around Delhi selling pens at 15, then moving through sales roles and the cable-TV trade — each stint teaching him the operational muscle he would later put into Su-Kam.
Foresight: shutting down cable TV in 1998
The pivotal call, the piece says, was foreseeing the growth of the power-backup industry and shutting down a profitable cable-TV business in 1998 to found Su-Kam. That is the risk that made the “history maker” label real — walking away from cash flow that was working, to bet on a category almost nobody was branding yet.
“Once a startup, Su-Kam is now an Indian multinational corporation — and is recognised as one of the fastest-growing organisations in the country.”— India Herald • profile of Kunwer Sachdev
Why the ‘history maker’ label sticks
India Herald calls Sachdev a great innovator, marketer, motivational speaker, and visionary entrepreneur of our times. What the profile is really saying: Su-Kam did not just grow — it redefined a category. The Indian home inverter went from an unbranded workshop trade to a design-led, IP-heavy consumer product, and Sachdev is the operator who did the redefining.
Kunwer Sachdeva, History Maker Founder & CEO, Su-Kam — India Herald →