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Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi’s Goseeko: How a Salesman Who Failed Every MBA Test Built a Profitable Edtech
Goseeko sells syllabus-mapped study notes to tier-2 college students. Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi took it to ₹7 crore in revenue, and a profit.
20 hrs ago
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Akshay Datt
Dhruv Toshniwal: How He Turned ₹1 Crore Into A ₹120 Crore Bottom-Wear Business
How a cancelled Mumbai store launch pushed Dhruv Toshniwal into building The Pant Project into a ₹120 crore bottom-wear brand backed by Sorin…
Sep 28
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Akshay Datt
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Manish Sabharwal: How TeamLease Became a ₹11,791 Crore Staffing Giant
Co-founder of TeamLease Services, on the equity mistake that shaped it and why he stepped back in 2026
Sep 21
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Akshay Datt
Venkat Nelabhotla's $50 Million Bet: How the Ex-Emami CEO Took Vyome From Delhi to Nasdaq
Vyome Holdings repurposes approved drugs for rare diseases. Its lead gel targets an estimated $2.2B US market and heads into a pivotal FDA trial.
Sep 17
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Akshay Datt
D.P. Mangal: The 62-Year-Old Who Turned ₹31 Crore Into a ₹600 Crore Yarn Company
Lagnam Spintex survived a crashed IPO and a trade war to become an NSE-listed cotton yarn exporter turning over ₹600 crore a year.
Sep 16
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Akshay Datt
Eupheus Learning: How 50 Ex-Britannica Colleagues Turned $1 Million Into a ₹225 Crore Business
Eupheus Learning is now in 10,000+ Indian schools, backed by $27 million and two acquisitions
Sep 15
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Akshay Datt
How Abhishek Negi took Eggoz from ₹11.75 crore to ₹130 crore in four years, one egg at a time
A failed cab startup, a 20 paise price hike at a Bihar omelette stall, and quick commerce turned India's most unbranded food category into a national…
Sep 14
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Akshay Datt
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Piyush Suri of 5BY7: The Man Who Runs Mercedes-Benz India’s Online Merch Store
Piyush Suri built 5BY7 from a dead printing site into a ₹12 crore merchandise business running the online stores for Mercedes-Benz India and Audi.
Sep 9
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Akshay Datt
Ankur Joshi Failed Three Times Before Nuclei. Then He Sat Down and Listed Every Mistake.
The Nuclei founder on rotational CEOs, knowing when to quit, and why he made banks pay upfront rather than raise a rupee of venture capital.
Sep 9
CollegeDekho's Ruchir Arora: Building a ₹221 Crore Business on India's Non-IIT Colleges
Ruchir Arora's CollegeDekho earns on every application and every admission, at 80% gross margin. Here is how a $90 million marketplace actually works.
Sep 8
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Akshay Datt
The $80 Million Idea: Inside Manav Bansal’s Bet on Electric Buses and Trucks
Inside the “zero-fatality” investment philosophy that got Drivn an $80 million commitment from Nomura before it leased a single electric bus or truck.
Sep 7
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Akshay Datt
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Arjun Jain of Fast Code AI Explains Why OpenAI’s Agent “Civilizations” Were Reward Hacking, Not Sentience
Fast Code AI founder Arjun Jain breaks down the three-month OpenAI agent takeover that hacked Hugging Face, and why he thinks it was cheating at scale…
Sep 4
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Akshay Datt
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