Drea Knufken
Wipro Limited, Premji’s holding company, runs India’s biggest IT outsourcing company. When Premji inherited Wipro, it was a cooking fats company. Premji grew Wipro, Borg-like, until it dealt not only in cooking fats, but in hydraulic cylinders, light bulbs, personal care products, and computers. When outsourcing fever hit the West in the early 2000s, Wipro’s IT services division gobbled up the chance—and the margins—as one of the boom’s main beneficiaries.
Premji’s next venture? His very own university.
