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The Moglix Story: How Rahul Garg Left Google to Rebuild India's Industrial Backbone
How a former Google executive with 16 patents transformed India's $200 billion B2B commerce opportunity by choosing the hardest problems to solve
Sep 15
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Akshay Datt
Ankit Mehta: The Deep-Tech Visionary Who Built India's Drone Empire
How an IIT Bombay engineer bootstrapped for 8 years to create India's first publicly listed drone manufacturer with 700,000+ successful missions
Sep 11
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Akshay Datt
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The Infrastructure Prophet: How Sharad Sanghi Built India's Digital Backbone Twice
At 56, after a successful exit, most entrepreneurs would retire. Instead, Sharad Sanghi saw ChatGPT and started over.
Sep 4
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Akshay Datt
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August 2025
Jyotsna Krishnan: Unlocking the $10 Trillion Hidden Economy by Building for Entrepreneurial Households
How Jyotsna, CEO and Co-founder at EPIC World and Managing Partner at Elevar Equity, helped build a $443 M Impact Fund by Redefining Who Counts as…
Aug 29
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Akshay Datt
Gaurav Dagaonkar: Building India's Music Licensing Empire with Hoopr
Discover Gaurav Dagaonkar's unconventional journey from corporate reject to tech entrepreneur revolutionizing the creator economy.
Aug 29
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Akshay Datt
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Ashish Taneja: The VC Who Built a ₹400 Crore Deep Tech Empire
From BPO CEO to India's most unconventional venture capitalist, the growX ventures founder is rewriting the playbook for hardware investing
Aug 25
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Akshay Datt
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Sheetanshu Tyagi: The Hardware Engineer Solving India's Battery Problems
From Rivian's first 50 employees to building a ₹200cr Indian battery startup- Sheetanshu Tyagi's contrarian approach is reshaping EV technology with…
Aug 14
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Akshay Datt
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The Architect of Trust: An In-Depth Profile of Raghvendra Nath and Ladderup
An in-depth profile of Raghvendra Nath, MD of Ladderup. Discover his career, investment philosophy, and how he built a high-trust wealth firm.
Aug 5
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Akshay Datt
July 2025
Suresh Darak: The Unfunded Fintech Founder Democratizing India's 50 Lakh Crore Bond Market
CA-turned-entrepreneur Suresh Darak built Bondbazaar into India's top-3 bond platform without venture funding, transforming 50+ step processes into…
Jul 30
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Akshay Datt
Jaydeep Barman: The McKinsey Consultant Who Built Rebel Foods - $1.4 Billion Cloud Kitchen Empire
The untold story of how a Bengali Math professor's son revolutionized restaurants by decoupling brands from real estate
Jul 25
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Akshay Datt
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The Chai-preneur's Playbook: How Nitin Saluja Built Chaayos, a Tech Company That Sells Tea
A deep dive into how IIT-Bombay alumnus Nitin Saluja disrupted India's trillion-rupee tea market with Chaayos, a 200+ store chain built on technology…
Jul 23
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Akshay Datt
The Two-Unicorn Playbook: How Amitava Saha Built FirstCry & Spun-Off the Logistics Giant, Xpressbees
Meet Amitava Saha, the founder of two unicorns: FirstCry & Xpressbees. Discover how an internal crisis at one startup led to the birth of a second.
Jul 21
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Akshay Datt
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