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.

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.

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 👌

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✍️

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

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💪

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 🇮🇳

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.

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