Sam Pitroda is considered the father of the technological revolution in India. After making a fortune in the United States as an entrepreneur, he returned to his home country to work, for decades, with the New Delhi government in building a sector that sparked the Indian economy and made it one of the largest emerging powers in the world. The Indian millionaire now has his eyes on Portugal, where he wants to build Knowledge Cities, which attract the greatest talents in the area of research and technological innovation, as well as the major investors in the world.
It was in Chicago, in 1964, that young Indian Sam Pitroda used a phone for the first time. He was far from imagining how important that device would be to his life. He was then 22 years old and was in the USA to pursue his university studies at the Illinois Institute of Tecnology. Son of a carpenter of the suthar caste, who prospered in doing business with the English and thus managed to finance the studies of his eight children, Sam arrived in America …
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