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This CEO was denied US visa thrice, now heads a $1 trillion firm
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This CEO was denied US visa thrice, now heads a $1 trillion firm

Sanjay Mehrotra (left) with PM Narendra Modi during the latter's visit to Micron's factory in Sanand, Gujarat

​Sanjay Mehrotra is CEO of Micron Technology, the memory-chip giant that just crossed a market cap of $1 trillion to break into the top 10 US companies by valuation

Washington : In the summer of 1976, a Kanpur-born teenage engineering student from BITS Pilani stood in the lobby of the US embassy in Delhi after being denied a student visa for the third time. His father, who had accompanied him, refused to leave.

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