Outlook Business on the Su-Kam founder’s off-boardroom life — the passion he picked up at 40 that turned into his real form of meditation: swimming.
Outlook Business’s feature does what most business profiles of Sachdev do not — it turns the camera off the factory floor and asks what the founder does outside Su-Kam. The unexpected answer: swimming, learned deliberately at age 40 and now his form of meditation.
Learning to swim at 40
The single detail the piece hangs on: Sachdev learned to swim at the relatively late age of 40. That is significant not as a fitness anecdote but as a statement about how he treats his own life — passions can be discovered and cultivated at any stage, no matter what your calendar looks like on Monday morning.
Water as the off-switch
Outlook Business frames swimming as the sanctuary. In the water, Sachdev tells the magazine, the boardroom pressure, strategic decisions and product-decision noise fall away — the rhythmic stroke and weightless posture act as a form of active meditation. Founders talk a lot about balance. Sachdev actually shows what his balance looks like.
“Passions can be discovered and cultivated at any stage of life — and for Sachdev, swimming is not merely a physical activity, it is a form of meditation.”— Outlook Business • feature on Kunwer Sachdev
Why Outlook chose this angle
The story implicitly makes an argument about how founders sustain themselves. Sachdev has built and rebuilt companies for two decades. The Outlook piece suggests the reason he keeps compounding is not just workload — it is a deliberate practice of getting out of his own head, and swimming is his mechanism for that.
Kunwer Sachdev feature — Outlook Business →