But what if they could get the benefits of outsourcing--cheap labor and long working days--without having to make the trip to Bangalore?

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At the time Smirnoff--a California native who never finished high school or college--was working at a bookstore in Oxford, where he settled when his car died there during a cross-country trip.

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