3 ms·

Similar: Azim Premji completed his degree from Stanford, many years later, after having to leave it and go back to India, to take charge of the family business

• aspenmayer 1y ago
  > I could not find it in the Wikipedia article, but I remember reading about it some years earlier, in some Indian magazine. I didn’t find it in an Indian magazine, but here it is in a magazine Stanford puts out. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-world-according-to-azim-premji https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-world-according-to-azim... > Premji was just finishing his engineering studies at Stanford in 1966 when he got word of his father’s sudden death. “It came as a complete shock,” he says. “I just had to rush back.” He had only one term until his graduation, a passage the news would delay 30 years. (Premji eventually sought—and got—permission to attend arts courses by correspondence to complete the requirements for his bachelor’s degree. “I had met all the core requirements for engineering—I just wanted that degree.”)