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Dream so big, they call you crazy. Today marks the 120th birth anniversary of JRD Tata, a visionary who founded Tata Consultancy Services (market cap of US$190 billion), Tata Motors (market cap of US$45 billion), Titan (market cap of US$37 billion), Tata Salt, Voltas (market cap of US$6 billion), TISS, and Air India (equity value of US$2 billion)! In 1932, when he established Tata Airlines (now known as Air India) in the colonial India (still under the British oppression), who could have imagined that he would create one of the largest and longest-standing airlines! This morning, as I flew with Air India (purely by coincidence), the announcement of his birth anniversary gave me goosebumps. I could not help but wonder what it took for him to dream of building these companies and the immense effort and hard work required to bring each one to life. It was not easy, but his legacy continues to inspire us all. Whenever I am spending time with some of the “crazy” entrepreneurs of our age, who are dreaming of changing the world, I too tell them that “Dream so big, they call you crazy and execute so hard that they call you a machine.” PS: Medial's increased character limit of 3,000 is such a saviour!