Lost father at 22, separated from family and built a 5000 CR shampoo.
(A thread 🧵) 1. Born in the coastal town of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, Chinni Krishnan Ranganathan was deeply inspired by his father, who pioneered selling shampoo in sachets. At the time, he distributed the famous Velvette Shampoo, but tragedy struck in 1982. 👇

Man who donated 65% of his 7.89 lakh CR wealth to charity.
(A thread 🧵) 1962➡️ Ratan Tata joined the Tata Group in 1962 after working for multiple companies, receiving his B.Arch. Degree from Cornell and briefly working with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles.

Built a 30,000 CR company with 10 lakh poor girls as employees in his factory. (A thread 🧵) 1. Born in Kalliampudur Village of the Erode district in Tamil Nadu, KP Ramaswamy had to drop out of college and return to his village. His father, a farmer, could not afford education for all four sons, so he had to do something to survive. 🤔

Son of a farmer builds a famous 9000 CR stock market company. (A thread 🧵) 1. Born to a Jain family in the small village of Padru in Barmer(Rajasthan), Motilal Oswal's father had a fledgling grains trading business. But Motilal wanted to leave the family trade and become the first person in his family to go to college. 👨‍🎓

Donated shares worth 6120 CR to employees and doesn't own a mobile phone. (A thread 🧵) 1. Born in a middle-class Brahmin family in Chennai, R Thyagarajan wanted to be financially independent. As he was looking for money, he saw an advertisement. 🤔

Fought a 600 CR loss to build a 14,000 CR famous company. ( A thread 🧵) 1. Born in a Dawoodi Bohra family, Habil Khorakiwala was inspired by his father (Fakhruddin), who owned India's first departmental store - "Akbarallys" near Gunbow Street in Bombay. The store became a monopoly in 1957, and Habil had to run it, but he had other plans. 🤔

Went to IIT, left his high paying US job and built a 60,000 CR famous company in India. (A thread 🧵) 1. Anand Deshpande cleared the entrance exams for NDA and MANIT but opted to study computer science engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He made everyone proud as the boy from Akola in Maharashtra was doing his PhD in computer science at Indiana University in the USA. 🙌

Professor at BITS Pilani builds a 73,000 CR Startup. (A thread 🧵) 1. At 20, Deshbandhu Gupta (DBG) started studying for a master's and impressed Maharaja Brajendra Singh of Bharatpur. The Maharaja immediately called Ghanshyam Birla to recommend DBG as an associate professor at the prestigious BITS, Pilani. 👨‍🏫

Divorced, removed from his own company, still builds an 8000 CR startup. (A thread 🧵) 1. Dhiraj Rajaram had a tough childhood. His father battled with alcohol abuse, so he lived with his grandfather, a typist in Times of India. He still worked hard and got an offer to do an MBA from the prestigious Booth School of Business in the US. 🙌

Failed CA twice and created a 15,000 CR Bank. 🤯

(A thread 🧵) 1. Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Sanjay Aggarwal had a tough start. He failed in Class 8th and after that, he failed to clear the CA exam twice. Cursing himself, Sanjay worked and got to the merit list in the third attempt. He was offered a job in Mumbai, but he had other plans. 🤔

American man who built an Indian clothes brand that Tata wants to buy for 17,000 CR. 🤯

( A thread 🧵) 1. John Bissell came from Hartford (USA) to India in 1958 when he got a 2-year grant from the Ford Foundation. He advised the Central Cottage Industries Corporation in exports. During his stay, he fell in love with the Indian culture. John decided to stay back. 🇮🇳

How did MTR become the largest snack company? (A thread 🧵) 1. Sadananda Maiya took over his family's restaurant - Mavali Tiffin Rooms (MTR), started by his grandfather. In 1924. MTR was the centre point for lip-smacking Idlis and coffee in the coastal town of Mavalli, Karnataka. As it shifted to Bangalore, a problem came up. 👇

Left his job at 45 and created a 45,000 CR Bank from his car. 🚗🤯
(A thread 🧵) 1. Vasudevan Pathangi Narasimhan worked in Murugappa Group's vehicle finance arm - Cholamandalam Finance in Tamil Nadu. But Vasu wanted to finance low-income people like slum dwellers and beggars underserved by banks. After fourteen years, he left his job. 🤯

Who is PNC Menon, the man from Kerala who built a 15,000 CR empire 👑? (A thread 🧵) 1. Born in Palakkad (Kerala), Puthan Naduvakkatt Chenthamaraksha (PNC) Menon had a tough start. At the age of ten, he lost his father and had to survive with an illiterate grandfather and an often sick mother. Menon had to drop out of college to do something for his family.

Who is Harsh Jain, the man rejected 150 times before building a 65,000 CR company? (A thread 🧵) 1. Harsh Jain majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania and interned at Microsoft. But soon, Harsh came to India to look at his family's steel manufacturing business, Jai Corp, in 2007. While managing marketing, he realised he wanted to do something of his own. 🙌

Who is Pavan Guntupalli, the man who fought Uber, Ola and built a 6700 CR company. (A thread 🧵) 1. Born in the state of Telangana, Pavan Guntupalli had been brilliant right from the start. He learnt computer programming trading in childhood and got an electrical engineering seat at the prestigious IIT Kharagpur. However, Pavan wanted to start something of his own. 🙌

Who is Lalit Keshre, the man who beat Zerodha and built a 24,000 CR company? (A thread 🧵) 1. Born to an agricultural family in the Lepa village of Madhya Pradesh, Lalit Keshre had beaten all odds. He majored in Microelectronics engineering from the prestigious IIT Bombay. But when Keshre entered the job field, things turned out to be different. 👇

Meet the man rejected 100 times before creating a 60,000 CR company. (A thread 🧵) 1. At 23, Harshil Mathur majored in software engineering from IIT Roorkee and worked as a Wireline Field Engineer for the US-based oilfield services company - Schlumberger. But the love for software never left him. Even with a job, he was doing something more. 🙌

Meet the man from Tamil Nadu who built an 11,600 CR software company. (A thread 🧵) 1. Krish Subramaniam was leading a well-deserved life. He rose above the ranks from an engineer earning Rs 3500 monthly at a small startup - MatexNet, to leadership roles at TCS and Cognizant. While looking for the next phase, Krish had to make an important decision. 🤔

Meet the man who built Indigo into India's largest airlines. (A thread 🧵) 1. Rahul Bhatia had a tough start. His father's 20-year-old travel business - Delhi Express, went bankrupt. After an electrical engineering degree and a two-year stint at IBM, Rahul had to do something more. 🤔

Meet the man who built the famous Redbus app and sold it for 800 CR. (A thread 🧵) 1. Phanindra Sama was very excited to go back home for Diwali in 2005. After all, he worked as an engineer in Bangalore and waited months for this. When Phanindra tried booking a bus ticket from Bangalore to Hyderabad, he was shocked. 🤯