N. R. Narayana Murthy: Story from Dreams to Billion-Dollar Empire

April 06. 2024 April 06. 2024 Blogger Kedar Blogger Kedar

He was born on 20 August 1946 in a middle-class Hindu family in Sidalghatta, a town in the southwestern state of Karnataka, India.

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After schooling, he went to the National Institute of Engineering and earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1967. In 1969 he received a master's degree from IIT, Kanpur.

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He first worked as a research associate under a faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and then later as a chief systems programmer.

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In 1981 he, with six software professionals, founded Infosys with an initial capital investment of Rs 10,000, which was provided by his wife Sudha Murty

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