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Trishneet Arora: Meet the young hacker who is better known as Mark Zuckerberg of India
Trishneet was born on November 2, 1993, in Ludhiana, Punjab. His father works as a tax consultant in Ludhiana and his mother is a homemaker. He was in Chandigarh School but did not complete his schooling. He dropped out after class 8th but later on did Class 10th & 12th from correspondence. He is a self-taught computer programmer and manager.
Tilak Mehta: Meet India's youngest entrepreneur with 100 crore annual turnover
Tilak was born in 2006, Gujrat to Vishal Mehta and Kajal Mehta. He is currently studying in Class 11th at Gurukul Olympiad School, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, and is 16 years old now. He proved that age is never a barrier to following your dreams and passion. Nobody can stop you if you are determined for your goal. He got financial assistance from his uncle who is in the banking profession.
Binny Bansal: The inspiring story of Flipkart CEO
He was born in 1983 in Chandigarh, Punjab. Binny did his schooling at St.Anne's School, Chandigarh. After then, Binny cracked IIT JEE and was admitted into IIT Delhi, and completed B.Tech in Computer Science. After completing his Graduation Binny worked as a Software engineer at Sarnoff from 2005-to 2007. He also worked at Amazon as a Software Engineer.
DEEPINDER GOYAL: Meet the man behind the famous food app 'Zomato'
Deepinder Goyal was born on January 26, 1983, in Muktsar, Punjab. His parents worked as teachers. Deepinder did his graduation from IIT Delhi in 2005 with Mathematics and Computing degree. After completing his Bachelor's, Deepinder worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant.
Nikhil Kamath: From school dropout to India's youngest billionaire
Nikhil Kamath was born on September 5, 1986, in Shimoga, Karnataka to Raghuram Kamath who is a retired employee of Canara Bank, and Revathi Kamath, an environmentalist and veena player. He attended school at Oxford Senior Secondary School in JP Nagar, Banglore but dropped out in class 10th because he didn't have any interest in studies. The only subject he was good at and took a little interest in was Mathematics. He took an active part in chess events during school time.
MALAVIKA HEDGE: The lady entrepreneur who is successfully running iconic CCD after her husband committed suicide
She became an inspiration to many after she took over the company and cleared the huge amount of debt left behind by her husband. She took responsibility of the company after one year of her husband's demise when the company was in a huge debt crisis of around 7000 crores. She addressed the employees and stated, “Resolutely committed to the future of Coffee Day as a going concern,” and added that it was “worth pursuing.”
Ashneer Grover: Know the fintech maestro who wrote BharatPe's success story
Ashneer was born on June 14, 1982, in Delhi. His father is a chartered accountant and his mother is a teacher. He pursued his Graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. After that, Ashneer did his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. He also did B.tech in Civil Engineering from Institut National des Sciences appliques de Lyon for which he was selected among one of the six students for an exchange program in France.
Namita Thapar: The ambitious woman entrepreneur behind Emcure Pharmaceuticals
Namita Thapar was born on March 21 in the year 1977 to Satish Mehta and Bhavana Mehta in Pune, Maharashtra. She did her schooling in Pune and pursued her Bachelors in B.com from Savitribai Phule University, besides her graduation she also completed her Chartered accountant degree from ICAI( Institute of Chartered Accountants of India). After then, She pursued her MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and graduated from there in 2001.
Peeyush Bansal: Know the Lenskart founder who revolutionised eyewear industry in India
Peeyush Bansal was born on April 26, 1985, in Delhi. He completed his schooling at Don Bosco School and pursued his graduation from McGill University in Electrical Engineering from 2002-2006. After that, he pursued MPEFB at the Indian Institute of Management from 2008-2009. In the year 2010, Peeyush along with Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi launched Lenskart.
Ghazal Alagh: Know the woman entrepreneur who made toxin-free skincare brand Mamaearth a big success story
Ghazal has a net worth of $17 million and her annual income from Mama Earth brand is estimated to be over INR 35 crores. The company has clocked over operating revenue of Rs. 461 crore in FY21 which is a massive jump in the profit of the company compared to FY20. In a very competitive market of beauty and skincare brands, Ghazal's beauty brand in a short span of just five years.
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