In a long-form interview on The Journey Podcast with Simarpreet Singh, Kunwer Sachdev — the Inverter Man of India — traces the full arc of Su-Kam: its 1998 founding, the inverter revolution, the downfall and 240+ crore debt, the legal battles, and what comes next.
In this long-form conversation on The Journey Podcast with Simarpreet Singh, Kunwer Sachdev — the entrepreneur widely known as the "Inverter Man of India" — traces the full arc of Su-Kam Power Systems, the company he founded in 1998.
He recounts the early days: the cable-TV business that came before, the moment a poorly built home inverter pushed him to design a better one, and the idea that grew into one of India's largest power-backup brands. He explains the distribution model and product thinking that drove Su-Kam's rapid rise, and is candid about what went wrong — the financial strain, a reported debt of more than ₹240 crore, the management missteps, and the long run of legal battles and the acquisition process that followed.
The closing chapters turn to what comes next: the lessons he draws from the downfall, his message to fellow entrepreneurs, and his return to building — now mentoring Su-vastika in lithium-based energy storage and power backup.