Talk:Vinod Gupta

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Is Mr. Gupta's company infoUSA the same as the one featured in the New York Times article "Bilking the Elderly, with a Corporate Assist"? The article doesn't mention Mr. Gupta by name, though it does say "Senior executives at infoUSA were contacted by telephone and e-mail messages at least 30 times. They did not respond." The Times describes a company with a truly fascinating, possibly evil set of mailing lists that are resold to whoever will pay -- which, evidently, includes small-time crooks.
Surely this information would be more interesting than these fascinating snippets from the current Wikipedia entry on Mr. Gupta (and note that infoUSA currently redirects here):
He did his graduation (BTech) from IIT Kharagpur in 1967, and MS in Agricultural Engineering and MBA from the University of Nebraska in 1972.
Before starting American Business Information Inc., he worked as Marketing Research Manager in Commodore Corporation. His company aimed to provide unique information services to American businessmen.
More recently, Vinod Gupta has achieved an even higher status among the mostly-male ITT graduates, when the New York Times revealed that he had a 60 foot yacht with an all-female crew.
Mherdeg 01:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: Is Mr. Gupta's company infoUSA the same as the one featured in the New York Times article "Bilking the Elderly, with a Corporate Assist"? The article doesn't mention Mr. Gupta by name, though it does say "Senior executives at infoUSA were contacted by telephone and e-mail messages at least 30 times. They did not respond." The Times describes a company with a truly fascinating, possibly evil set of mailing lists that are resold to whoever will pay -- which, evidently, includes small-time crooks.
Surely this information would be more interesting than these fascinating snippets from the current Wikipedia entry on Mr. Gupta (and note that infoUSA currently redirects here):
He did his graduation (BTech) from IIT Kharagpur in 1967, and MS in Agricultural Engineering and MBA from the University of Nebraska in 1972.
Before starting American Business Information Inc., he worked as Marketing Research Manager in Commodore Corporation. His company aimed to provide unique information services to American businessmen.
More recently, Vinod Gupta has achieved an even higher status among the mostly-male ITT graduates, when the New York Times revealed that he had a 60 foot yacht with an all-female crew.
Mherdeg 01:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
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