Wipro Chairman Azim Premji figures in the Business Weeks all time top 30 entrepreneurs of the world.
New York, July 2 : Wipro Chairman Azim Premji figures in the Business Week's all time top 30 entrepreneurs of the world.
Premji's name features alongside that of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, John D Rockefeller, Thomas Edison and Michael Dell.
Muhammad Younus, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, John Jacob Astor, Milton Hershey, W K Kellogg, Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart Ray Kroc, Madam C J Walker, Estie Lauder, Ernest Gallo, Thomas Watson Sr, Thomas Watson Jr, Sam Walton Earl Graves Andy Grove, Ralph Lauren, Martha Stewart, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar are the others in the list.
Premji is lauded for turning a struggling consumer products business into an IT major.
Business Week says it "picked the brains" of professors, authors and its own staffers to compile the list.
The criterion was simple: if they had the vision to create new markets or tap into underserved markets, changing the way people lived in the process, they were candidates for the honour. But still it agreed that the list is subjective.
ANI