I became familiar with his work through "Dreaming in Code." If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend giving it a try. The writing style is lively and engaging—definitely not your typical tech book.
His master's thesis, which focuses on socially responsible impact investing, is worth reading. Especially in this age where growth-at-all costs is de rigeur.
Azim Premji completed his degree from Stanford, many years later, after having to leave it and go back to India, to take charge of the family business, after his father's death, IIRC.
> Premji was just finishing his engineering studies at Stanford in 1966 when he got word of his father’s sudden death. “It came as a complete shock,” he says. “I just had to rush back.” He had only one term until his graduation, a passage the news would delay 30 years. (Premji eventually sought—and got—permission to attend arts courses by correspondence to complete the requirements for his bachelor’s degree. “I had met all the core requirements for engineering—I just wanted that degree.”)
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Azim Premji completed his degree from Stanford, many years later, after having to leave it and go back to India, to take charge of the family business, after his father's death, IIRC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azim_Premji
I could not find it in the Wikipedia article, but I remember reading about it some years earlier, in some Indian magazine.
I didn’t find it in an Indian magazine, but here it is in a magazine Stanford puts out.
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-world-according-to-azim...
> Premji was just finishing his engineering studies at Stanford in 1966 when he got word of his father’s sudden death. “It came as a complete shock,” he says. “I just had to rush back.” He had only one term until his graduation, a passage the news would delay 30 years. (Premji eventually sought—and got—permission to attend arts courses by correspondence to complete the requirements for his bachelor’s degree. “I had met all the core requirements for engineering—I just wanted that degree.”)