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For over five decades, Azim Hasham Premji has been one of the trailblazers of India Inc. Taking over his family business of vegetable oils at the young age of twenty-one after the untimely demise of his father, he built one of India's most successful software companies along with a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. As of 2019, he was the tenth richest person in India, with an estimated net worth of $7.2 billion. Yet, the one facet of the man which has overshadowed even his business achievements is his altruism.

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Khanna and Sood, both fine reporters, and also among the few who understand the IT services business, have written a book that is one, a master class in reporting and two, a fine example of what a balanced biography should be. - Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Hindustan Times, on his three favourite books of 2020 Rich with many such never-heard-before anecdotes, the book celebrates Premji's business acumen while detailing his quirks and failures. This is what a business biography should be. - Sandipan Deb in Mint, on his five favourite books of 2020 that deserve to be read Authors, business journalists both, have done a stellar job in telling the story of this most unusual billionaire. Surely, this is the most informative book on Indian business in this remarkable year. - Business India Both Khanna and Sood have written the book with as much honesty and sincerity as is possible. - The Hindu Business Line The biography has a lot going for it. It offers fascinating insights into the man who is a philanthropist at heart and a businessman by choice. - Lov Verma, former health secretary, in Open magazine These tidbits about the man who is a public figure but about whom the public knows very little, raises this biography into a smooth and interesting read. - The Week magazine

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Sundeep Khanna is a regular columnist for Money Control as well as The Morning Context, a subscription-only business news outlet. In a journalism career spanning thirty years, he has been a senior editor at publications such as Business Today and Financial Express before retiring as executive editor of Mint. Varun Sood is deputy business editor at The Morning Context. Earlier, he was a national editor in charge of breaking stories at Mint.

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