Ashok Soota is the 77-year-old entrepreneur whose Bengaluru-based startup Happiest Minds Technologies' IPO was oversubscribed 151 times. The IPO got bids for 3.51 billion shares versus the 23.3 million on offer. IT veteran Soota holds a bachelors' degree in electrical engineering from Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) and a Masters' degree from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines.