Umang Gupta, Who Paved Way for Indian Tech Executives, Dies at 73 - The New York Times

He found success as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley shortly after arriving there in 1978, then represented his fellow alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Unlike most other companies of the era, he chose to run the software online and sell it as a subscription service, a business model that now dominates enterprise computing. He was ahead of his time … [+1864 chars]

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