{"id":132,"date":"2026-04-10T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=132"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:05:06","slug":"azim-premji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/azim-premji","title":{"rendered":"Azim Premji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Azim Premji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/AzimPremji.jpg\" \/>Sometimes the company you start looks a lot different from  the company you end up with; Azim Premji turned his cooking fat company into one  of India&#8217;s  largest technology companies. With over 70,000 employees and $3Bn in sales, Wipro provides software solutions, research and development, and  information technology outsourcing to multinational corporations. Azim is the Chairman  of Wipro, and one of India&#8217;s five wealthiest men.<\/p>\n<p>Azim explains how he turned his father&#8217;s company into a technology leader, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/AzimPremji-FromScratch-041026.mp3\" class=\"wpaudio\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the company you start looks a lot different from the company you end up with; Azim Premji turned his cooking fat company into one of India&#8217;s largest technology companies. With over 70,000 employees and $3Bn in sales, Wipro provides software solutions, research and development, and information technology outsourcing to multinational corporations. Azim is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}