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IT services major Wipro celebrated 75 years of service on December 29. To culminate this occasion the first batch of tech leaders, who joined Wipro in 1980, have pieced together their memories of introducing many technological firsts to the company and to India. 75 years ago today, on Dec 29, 1945, my grandfather MH Premji registered a co. called Western India Vegetable Products Ltd. Today, we unveil the story of its making into Wipro, a global IT co. For 53 of those 75 yrs, Wipro was led by my father. #TheStoryofWipro #75YearsofWipro, Azim Premji s son Rishad Premji said in his Twitter post. That s why The Story of Wipro is also the Story of Azim Premji. From a vanaspati Mfr to a diversified global business, built on the bedrock of solid values. I m proud to carry forward this legacy. The Story of Wipro, to be published by Westland Business, to release soon, he add
Wipro turns 75! New book chronicles firm s journey from vegetable oil maker to global IT powerhouse
The first batch of tech leaders, who joined Wipro in 1980, are presently piecing together their memories of introducing many technological firsts to the company and to India
BusinessToday.In | December 30, 2020 | Updated 14:47 IST
Azim Premji has had a big hand in steering Wipro since 1966 when dropped out of Stanford University at the age of 21 and returned to India following his father s death to take charge
As the IT services major Wipro turned 75 on December 29, its first few employees have come together to write a book on their experience of working with the tech giant s founder chairman Azim Premji as well as the company s journey so far.
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It was decided last year that the book would contain the remembrances of the first crop of veterans who spearheaded technology initiatives at Wipro, Sridhar Mitta, the company’s first chief technology officer and president of technology divisions at Wipro told ET. Mitta is currently founder of NextWealth Entrepreneurs.
“There were three reasons for Wipro to thrive. Even though it was a small company and Premji was not very well known at the time and other companies had more resources and branding, he articulated the value systems that Wipro was to follow and personally led people to follow them,” said Mitta. “Ethical behaviour is a religion. He would say there is black and white, no grey.”