Last week, he grabbed the limelight by taking over WeWorks, a co-working space operator now on the verge of bankruptcy. Yardi is taking a controlling stake worth US$450 million ($605.6 million).
Investors have much to learn from Anant Yardi, a soft-spoken, 78-year old engineer. He arrived in America in 1968 with less than US$100 in his pocket. He was from India, which was then an austere, socialist economy. The young man had never seen colour television.
Yardi is now a tech billionaire in California. He founded Yardi Systems, a provider of software for property managers. The company could be called the Microsoft of property managers.
