He quit school at 14, learned chess at a cafe, taught himself to trade stocks, and ended up building a multi-billion dollar empire before turning 35. ——–By StartupStories · May 2025 · 9 min read ——–14Age of Dropout ——–$3B+Net Worth ——–2010 Zerodha Founded ~1.5CrZerodha Clients Most parents would panic if their 14-year-old said he was dropping […]
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You open the app, tap a few times, and within 10 minutes a bag of eggs lands at your door. Convenient, right? Except lately, a growing number of people have been cracking open those eggs to find something deeply wrong — a foul smell, a rubbery texture, or worse, something that looks and feels nothing
The headline sounds extraordinary. Vodafone Idea — India’s perpetually struggling, debt-ridden, subscriber-bleeding third telecom operator — has reported a net profit of ₹51,970 crore for the January–March 2026 quarter. That’s not a typo. The same company that has been posting losses quarter after quarter for years, the same company whose survival has been debated in
Eleven years ago, three engineers — two IITians and a PESU grad — started a company called theKarrier to move goods around on mini-trucks. It didn’t really work. So they scrapped it, pivoted to something that felt almost too obvious once you thought about it, and started Rapido: a platform to turn the millions of
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“They Weren’t Just In It for the Money” — Meta’s AI Chief Alexandr Wang Has Had Enough of the Mercenary Narrative May 15, 2026 There’s a story that has been circulating in tech circles for months now, and it goes something like this: Meta needed to catch up in the AI race, so Mark Zuckerberg
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Successful entrepreneurship often looks different from standard corporate best practices. Many founders grow not by following a rigid plan, but by adopting mental models that help them spot opportunities, solve real problems, and move with limited resources. This article explains six practical entrepreneurial mindsets that can help founders, small
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Starting a business sounds exciting—and honestly, it is. You imagine being your own boss, making your own decisions, building something meaningful. No more answering to someone else. Just you and your vision. But what most people don’t realize at the beginning is this: entrepreneurship is not just about ideas. It’s about decisions. And a few
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The Man in the Turban: How a Refugee’s Grit Spiced Up the World We all know the face. The signature red turban, the white mustache, the twinkling eyes, and that grandfatherly smile. For decades, Mahashay Dharampal Gulati was the most recognizable face in India. But before he was the “King of Spices,” he was just
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