36 Azim Premji
- Indian tech magnate Azim Premji’s $8.4 billion (revenue) Wipro is India’s third-largest outsourcer.
- Premji gave up studies at Stanford in 1966 to look after the family’s cooking oil business when his father died, expanding it into software.
- Wipro has an innovation centre in Silicon Valley, which is focused on developing new technologies and collaborating with startups.
Also, he is ranked and sharing 32nd position in the list of richest men in the world, with an estimated net worth of $22.6 billion.
