No Moments of Regret, Says Narayana Murthy at Infosys Founders Farewell

IT giant Infosys was founded back in the 1980s by a small group of individuals with big ideas and not-so-big funding. The company has since grown into a mammoth international organisation - one that helped put Bangalore and India on the world's IT map.

Now, Kris Gopalakrishnan, the last of the founders still with India's second largest IT services company today, retires on Friday. On Wednesday, a farewell to the founding team was held at the company's headquarters in Bangalore.

The founders may have started small but their big ideas turned a small company into a multi-million dollar firm with 1,60,000 employees and made it the first Indian company to be listed on US stock exchange Nasdaq.

Infosys co-founder N R Narayan Murthy said that being listed on the US bourse was one of the highpoints of the journey. (Watch)

Another co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who has had a high profile career in government after leaving Infosys, told NDTV the company would always be special for him.

Kris Gopalakrishnan told NDTV that it was certainly an "emotional time".

Infosys's new CEO, Vishal Sikka, the first non-founder to head the company, told NDTV that the founders would always be there to support the IT services provider.

This is a time when Infosys looks ahead at challenges including high attrition. But there is no denying the impact the company has had on the image and reality of IT in India

"It was more than starting a company. It was about middle class people becoming entrepreneurs. About sharing wealth with employees," Mr Nilekani added.