Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this episode of Silicon Grapevine, we talk to Rajesh Vashist, Chairman and CEO of SiTime. He takes us through his journey from not wanting to be an engineer, to following his father’s advice back in the 1970s to study both engineering and an MBA, and how this led him to an entrepreneurial journey in Silicon Valley, California.

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