👉Ritesh Agarwal has grown OYO from a little idea to a profitable brand after dropping out of college and being given the Thiel Fellowship to pursue his entrepreneurial dream.
👉Bhavin Turakhia was just 20 years old when he founded Directi in 1998, and he quickly rose through the ranks of the business world to become a well-known serial entrepreneur. In 2015, he launched the financial business Zeta, which was just inducted into the Unicorn club.
👉Rajan Bajaj Was Voted among Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs, Rajan Bajaj is next on the list of India’s eligible bachelors in startups. Rajan is an IIT Kharagpur graduate and is the founder and CEO of a Fintech company called SlicePay which was launched in 2016.
👉Shubham Gupta is a talented individual. Shubham joined the Delhi School of Economics after graduating from Sri Ram College of Commerce,only to discover his interest lay elsewhere.Currently, among his other enterprises, he is the Co-founder of Learn with Leaders.
👉Suumit is a serial entrepreneur best known for his programme Dukaan, which was released during the lockdown and quickly became a hit on the Google App Store.
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This Indian American billionaire is the reason why Google exists🤯
Meet Ram Shriram one of the first investors of Google. He has invested $0.5 million when Sergey Brin & Larry Page were working from a garage.
He is a self-made billionaire with a net worth of $2.8 billion who now runs a VC firm named "Sherpalo Ventures"
Not only Google, he has also invested in a lot of popular tech startups including Razorpay, Inmobi, Notion, Skyroot Aerospace (India's 1st space startup) & many more.
This 26-year-old Indian boy never went to college but created a tech startup that later got acquired by WordPress founder 😱
Meet Kishan Bagaria, a self-taught tech enthusiast & founder of texts. com, which was acquired by the owner of WordPress & Tumblr Matt Mullenweg at a whopping price of $50 million.
Texts. com is a one-step solution in the world of messaging. It integrates popular messaging apps like, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, & Telegram in a single dashboard.
It also allows users to see the message without letting the recipients know.
This man is known as Elon Musk of India and has quietly built 3 unicorns in 11 years👇
He is none other than "Supam Maheshwari," a serial founder whose startups FirstCry, XpressBees, and GlobalBees has achieved unicorn status.
In December 2021, his venture, GlobalBees, entered the Unicorn Club and became the second-fastest Unicorn in India, achieving the status in only 7 months.
We all know who is Missile Man of India, but hardly anyone knows who is Missile Women of India, A thread 🧵
Dr. Tessy Thomas is known as the Missile Woman of India.
But why?
She is an Indian scientist who has made significant contributions to India's missile programs, particularly the Agni series.
Dr. Tessy Thomas was the first woman scientist to head a missile project in India and has been instrumental in the development of various missile systems
This man failed at building Hike, and is now heading towards the gaming industry, A thread 🧵
So to everyone who is new to my thread I have written a thread a year before on why and how Hike failed, so first read that from here and then we will move towards where he is actually heading towards.