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May 28, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
It's a small, elite club of women of Indian origin to ever take a company public.
Here's who's in it 👇
1. Anjali Sud
CEO of Vimeo, the video-technology company.
Born to Indian immigrants in the US, Anjali studied at Wharton, Harvard.
She was the Head of Marketing and later a GM at media giant IAC, when she led growth and monetization of IAC’s core video business.
Feb 10, 2021 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Ankur Jain turned his love for breweries into India’s topmost craft beer brand, booking $100 million+ in annual revenues 📈
Craziest part?
Sequoia had actually turned him down for money, only to return to invest twice.
Quick 🧵 1) Ankur Jain moved back to India in 2007 after studying computer science in Chicago, and working on his own health tech startup for 4 years.
His company had fortunately had a modest exit, and Ankur decided to pack bags for good 🇮🇳
He took up a job with Reliance.
Jan 29, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Vikaas Gutgutia turned Ferns-n-Petal from a tiny flower dukaan in Dilli, to one of the largest global suppliers of decorative flowers, booking ₹400 crores in annual revenues
Best part?
the idea came to him because he couldn’t find decent flowers for his date😇
Quick🧵 2) Vikaas grew up in a typical middle-class home in Bihar, with little exposure to business
While finishing college in Kolkata, he regularly helped his uncle run a flower shop in his free time, mostly with sales and partnerships 👌
Jan 7, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
While Nadella's magic turnaround of Microsoft is commendable
Shantanu Narayen, pulled off an equally ballsy transformation of a struggling Adobe 📈
Quick 🧵 2) Like countless other global-tech CEOs, Shantanu has middle class Indian roots too
He was born and brought up in a Hyderabad based Telugu household
An avid reader growing up, for the longest time he dreamt of becoming a journalist✍️
Dec 13, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
A woman entrepreneur from Ludhiana, Punjab turned her kitchen-business into a ₹1,000 crore global empire that exports foods to over 60 countries
The best part?
It's going to IPO next week📈
Quick🧵 2) Rajni Bector is the founder and CEO of Mrs. Bector’s Cremica, a maker of biscuits and bread in India and a key supplier of McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King🍔
Rajni was born in Karachi, and had moved to Delhi with her family post partition
Dec 10, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Two high-school friends created a sports-apparel brand from their basement and scaled it to a $1.4 billion company using influencers
Quick thread on the crazy story of Gymshark 👇
In the summer of 2012, 19-year-old Ben Francis and Lewis Morgan started selling health supplements online while studying at university in the UK🌿
Both were fitness enthusiasts who spent a lot of time at the gym💪
Oct 25, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
A simple Hacker News post helped create a $5 billion cloud behemoth in India 🔥
quick thread on the unreal rise of Freshdesk —
One of the most prominent startups in India, Freshdesk was founded by Girish Mathrubootham in 2008.
In under a decade, the company (now known as Freshworks) has grown into a diversified cloud powerhouse, bringing in over $200 million in revenue—100% built in India 🇮🇳
Sep 27, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
From the mountains of Himachal, to running a $17 billion cloud company 🔥
a quick look at the inspiring story of Jay Chaudhry, one of the wealthiest Indian Americans —
Jay is the founder and CEO of ZScaler, one of the hottest cybersecurity firms in the world right now and a big winner of the shift to remote work.
Since its IPO in 2018, ZScaler stock has shot up 8x.
Sep 15, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Nvidia will spend $40 billion to buy Arm Holdings from Softbank 🔥
a quick look at what makes this deal so special —
Arm Holdings makes processors that most commonly go into your smartphones, tablets and other electronics devices
These CPUs are based on the ARM architecture — a type of reduced instruction set, low power, low cost processor line, best suited for simple devices