Since the age of 16, when he first heard about Intel starting up, Vinod dreamt of starting his own technology company. Upon graduating with a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Vinod failed, at age 20, to start a soy milk company to service the many people in India who did not have refrigerators. He went instead to the U.S. and got his master's in biomedical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from Stanford University and started Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, incubated Nexgen/AMD, Juniper and several other companies.
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