This man built an $18 billion Silicon Valley company — after the US government almost didn't let him in
Walk into any Walgreens, pop open nearly any digital camera and you'll see it: the ubiquitous SanDisk memory card. Over the past 26 years, SanDisk bloomed from a three-person startup in Milpitas, California, to a company with $6.6 billion in revenue, a market cap of around $18 billion, and 8,700 employees worldwide. And it almost didn't happen because the US government repeatedly told co-founder and current CEO, Sanjay Mehrotra, that he would not be allowed to go to college in the US.
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