What the First 18 Months of a GCC Really Look Like ft. Malahar Pinnelli
EPISODE NOTES
🏗️ Building a new tech center isn’t glamorous in the beginning. It’s operational. In this conversation, Malahar Pinelli breaks down what the first 12–18 months of building a GCC from scratch actually looks like. And it’s rarely about big innovation on day one. It starts with the fundamentals: 🔹 Setting up the legal entity 🔹 Understanding local and cross-border compliance 🔹 Hiring the first core team 🔹 Figuring out who can help you build the ecosystem Only after that foundation is in place does the real scaling begin. Malhar has helped build 8 Global Capability Centers, and the pattern is strikingly similar every time. Once the basics are sorted, teams can focus on what truly matters — bringing cutting-edge technology to the right talent. In their case, the early focus was on nich…