Back in 1979, X approached Premji for a job, but there was no follow up call from the wipro boss. Premji later on joked in an interview, "We just found him too high powered for us. We were not ready for him. Maybe I also felt personally threatened by him." Identify X.

Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, did approach Azim Premji for a job at Wipro in 1979 before starting his own company. Premji's humorous comment about finding Murthy 'too high powered' and feeling 'personally threatened' reflects Murthy's exceptional capabilities even before he became one of India's most successful entrepreneurs. Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail, Nandan Nilekani was Murthy's co-founder at Infosys, and Bharat Desai founded Syntel.