Azim Premji, Sundeep Khanna
Azim Premji, Sundeep Khanna
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Azim Premji
The Man Beyond the Billions

Author: Sundeep Khanna, Varun Sood

Narrator: Darrpan Mehta

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperBusiness

Published: 03/10/2021

Synopsis


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. His commitment to the Azim Premji Foundation, a non-profi­t focused on education, totals around $21 billion, making him one of the world's top philanthropists. Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions, the fi­rst authoritative biography of the icon, shows how Premji is a philanthropist at heart and a businessman by choice - a man who wanted to give away his billions but realized early enough that he would ­first have to earn them. It peels the layers off Premji's life while chronicling his professional and charitable work in the context of his many strengths and shortcomings. Based on interviews with hundreds of current and past Wipro executives, who have over the years worked closely with him, as well as with competitors, analysts, family friends and industry associates, this is a journalists' account of Premji the man, the businessman and the philanthropist.

About Sundeep Khanna

Sundeep Khanna has been a business journalist ever since the first personal computers came into India, and writes regular columns for Money Control and Livemint. His books include The Liberalization Story, a collection of essays on one of the most seminal events in Indian business. He has co-authored Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions, a biography of one of the world's best-known philanthropists.

About Varun Sood

VARUN SOOD is a Bengaluru-based technology journalist. He started his career with Business Standard and in the past fourteen years has worked with a number of publications, including Financial Times and The Economic Times. In his last role, he was a National Editor in charge of breaking stories at Mint.

Reviews

Goodreads review by S on January 10, 2021

I knew Premji for more than two decades, yet reading this book convinced me that I did not know him! Here are some excerpts that made reading this book so enjoyable Stress on values, his philanthrophy and frugal life Page xiii Values, Character & Integrity" in the early 70s, before it was fashionabl......more

Goodreads review by Shubham on December 30, 2024

The fact that so little is known about the Indian business tycoon Mr. Azim Premji is the most important reason to pick this book "The Man Beyond Billions". Having worked at Wipro in the initial few years of my software engineering career, on one hand, I can completely relate to many of the facts men......more

Goodreads review by Salil on March 14, 2021

Biographies of Indian business leaders are not so frequent in India, and are inevitably linked to the business institution that they would have created. However Azim Premji is literally a man who has gone beyond the billions with his fantastic endowments of his wealth to his philanthropic foundation......more

Goodreads review by Shashi on February 21, 2021

Book Review : “Azim Premji :The Man Beyond the Billions” by Sundeep Khanna & Varun Sood My interest in picking this book - Know more about the early days of WIPRO as a vegetable oil company - Understand the work done by Azim Premji Foundation (APF). I currently work in the Social Impact Space & hence my......more

Goodreads review by Ujval on May 20, 2021

Azim Premji is an icon and an enigma hence there's a lot of interest in know more about him. This book is timely given that it had the opportunity to capture his entire career at Wipro till a couple of years after he stepped down from Executive Chairmanship. The book thankfully doesn't indulge in her......more

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