Born in Pittsburgh, Rice spent his childhood by his father's side, learning the Xs and Os while serving as a ballboy and engaging in lengthy debate over the dinner table.

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Recently SKS founder Vikram Akula (which also has billionaire Vinod Khosla and Sequoia Capital as investors), got into this very debate with his one time idol, Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize founder of Grameen Bank and the father of microfinance.

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