As a young lad from tiny Rampur, IIT Kharagpur was a turning point in Vinod Gupta’s life. It opened his eyes to the diversity of India. Since then, there has been no looking back for the man who now counts Bill and Hillary Clinton among his friends. Vinod Gupta is the founder of InfoUSA Inc., a database company that has revenues of over $300 million and is set to expand to all English- speaking countries. But what makes Gupta a true pathbreaker is the manner in which" />
As a young lad from tiny Rampur, IIT Kharagpur was a turning point in Vinod Gupta’s life. It opened his eyes to the diversity of India. Since then, there has been no looking back for the man who now counts Bill and Hillary Clinton among his friends. Vinod Gupta is the founder of InfoUSA Inc., a database company that has revenues of over $300 million and is set to expand to all English- speaking countries. But what makes Gupta a true pathbreaker is the manner in which" />
As a young lad from tiny Rampur, IIT Kharagpur was a turning point in Vinod Gupta’s life. It opened his eyes to the diversity of India. Since then, there has been no looking back for the man who now counts Bill and Hillary Clinton among his friends. Vinod Gupta is the founder of InfoUSA Inc., a database company that has revenues of over $300 million and is set to expand to all English- speaking countries. But what makes Gupta a true pathbreaker is the manner in which">
ML: You come from UP and
were born at Rampur, weren’t you? VG: I was born in New Delhi,
that’s what my dad told me; it was at the Lady Harding Medical College,
room number 102 or something (laughs aloud at the detail). But yes, my dad
lived in a place by that name which most people confuse with the State of
Rampur. This is actually near Saharanpur. The full name is Rampur...
