The incredible story of Ravinder Thota, the phenol salesman who built a $33M IT company
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Ravinder Thota hails from a small village in Telangana s Warangal district. He lost his father at the age of three, and was raised by his mother who used to work on their small piece of agricultural land. He used to help his mother in the fields, while topping in school at every class. Until his ninth grade, he didn t even have footwear to wear.
Ravinder had realised early in life that the only way out of their poverty was the pursuit of education. He came to Hyderabad from his village to pursue agricultural sciences as his subject for Bachelor s and Master s degree. He went on to do a PhD from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University.