Sanjiv Sidhu

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Sanjiv Sidhu is the founder and chairman of i2 Technologies, originally named Intellection. The son of a chemical engineer from India left the safety of his lab job at Texas Instruments in 1988 to start i2 Technologies out of his apartment with no venture capital. The productivity software maker landed big-name clients like Barnes and Noble, Panasonic, and Procter & Gamble. i2 made a huge splash when it went public in 1996. At his peak Sidhu's personal stake in i2 hit a high of $6.5 billion, at which point he was considered the richest person of Indian origin in the world. In 1980 he graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad, in Chemical Engineering.

Sanjiv Sidhu also claims to have arrived independently at the same conclusions often attributed to the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller regarding the number of elements that one can process effectively at any given time, his official biography states: Based on his observation that even the smartest people can juggle no more than nine variables when making decisions, he proposed a design for computer software based on artificial intelligence and advanced simulation techniques. This claim, however, may not be more than another addition to the urban legend surrounding 7± 2