Dreams of a billionaire
My first ambition is I want to prove that in India, we have a global Indian company in the real estate and construction industry. I want people from anywhere in the world to look at my buildings and say, what a building! What construction!
My target for this global Indian company is 2011. My dream volume: 10million sq ft of buildings, and 10 million sq ft of infrastructure. I am confident we will achieve that dream.
Diversification
I plan to get into the hospitality business. In the next seven years, I should have 4,000 rooms operational within and outside India.
I am also getting into the retail business. I want to set up home stores where you can buy everything for a home, other than grocery and clothes. You need a minimum 50,000 sq ft to set up each such store.
I am already in to information technology. I have a 1,000-people company called Sobha Renaissance Information Technology in Bangalore.
I am also targetting trading and investments.
But my primary verticals will be construction, infrastructure, retail and hospitality.
Image: Children at a school set up by Menon's company.
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