New Delhi, July 30 -- Few leaders in India's technology ecosystem have experienced both ends of that spectrum as Nischal Shetty has. Over the past decade, he has built businesses around emerging technologies, often before they entered the mainstream. From co-founding Crowdfire, one of India's earliest social media management platforms, to building WazirX into one of the country's most established crypto exchanges, launching Layer-1 blockchain Shardeum, and co-founding Pi42, a crypto derivatives platform tailored for Indian traders, Shetty has gravitated towards sectors where the rules were still being written.

The common thread across these ventures has been a willingness to build in uncertainty. Whether navigating the early days of soci...