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Sushil Wadhwani, former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee and a Khosla family friend, is also a shareholder.

In 1998, two years after joining ABN, Mr Khosla was headhunted by GE Capital's business development unit in London.

Mr. Khosla says with the extra money the farmer made, and a small loan, he bought his own precision leveler.

On one occasion, Mr Khosla had to be talked out of giving up by his father and wife.

Santosh Khosla, an information technology consultant whose family moved to Gurgaon in 1993, has services provided by his developer, DLF.

If Copal is preparing for an initial public offering next year, is Mr Khosla thinking of moving on to a new venture?

Co-founder Neeru Khosla says the nonprofit group had been developing digital science and math books for about two years.

But Mr Khosla believed that India's growing population of graduates could be a valuable asset for western financial firms.

Ten billionaires, including Khosla, signed the pledge on April 28th bringing the total number of signatories to 69.

But Mr. Khosla says farmers could form a cooperative or combine their resources to pay for new equipment.

Today, Mr Khosla is among the pioneers who have persuaded Wall Street to outsource this and other intellectual work to India.

The money came from a group financed by the Khosla family.

Two key characteristics, Mr. Khosla says: 'unbridled confidence and arrogance. '

But Mr Khosla and Mr Page are not ordinary businessmen or armchair revolutionaries.

The crisis which Mr Khosla is concerned about is caused by carmakers' addiction to oil and the consequent warming of the planet.

"We view China as a market that has taught us how to focus, how to differentiate and how to innovate, " Khosla says.

The experience taught Mr Khosla a valuable lesson.

Khosla, who is president of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, a professional organization of osteoporosis specialists.