Prior to Infosys, Mr Muthy worked as a Research Associate and later as Chief Systems Programmer at IIM Ahmedabad
Mr Murthy and his colleague, Prof. Rama Rao had developed India's first BASIC interpreter for TDC 312, a computer manufactured in the late 1960s by Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), and also worked on India's first time-sharing computer system.
He later started his own company Softronics, however, had to close down after 1 and half years as the firm did not achieve any success and joined Patni Computers in Pune as General Manager in 1977.
A year later, he married Sudha Murthy after dating for almost four years. They both met through a friend. Prasanna, her colleague at that time used to bring her books that had Narayan Murthy's name on them
Mr. Murthy started Infosys with six software professionals Nandan M Nilekani, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh, NS Raghavan, and Ashok Arora in 1981 after borrowing ₹10,000 from his wife Sudha Murthy.
Murthy was honoured with Wharton Dean's Medal in May 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania, Max Schmidheiny Freedom Prize in 2001 by the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen.
By Priyanka Sawant