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Meet John Furner, who joined Walmart as a part-time garden-centre associate; now he leads the retail giant with 2.1 million employees; know his education and career journey- Meet Lukas Biewald, who lost his CEO role at his first startup; how an unpaid internship at OpenAI helped him build an AI company behind a karate studio that sold for $1.7 billion
- You make your own reality: Amrit Acharya left US job to build Zetwerk in India despite his father’s initial scepticism; years later, his father stood beside him as company went public
- Aravind Srinivas looked up to Google CEO Sundar Pichai before building Perplexity AI; how an unexpected detail stayed with himAravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho. They initially experimented with tools t...29 Oct, 2026, 12.57 AM IST
- Meet Joe Demin and Rachel Connors, a couple who started selling hammocks in 2011; here's how their side hustle crossed $30 million in salesJoe Demin was travelling to Thailand in 2011 when they came across a soft, handwoven hammock. It was different from the rough products they...28 Oct, 2026, 11.12 PM IST
- Meet Casey Ferrand McGee, former reporter who spent five hours a week on a side hustle that nearly matched her $60,000 salary; how she built a business after 14 years in TV newsCasey Ferrand McGee is the founder of CFM Media. It is a media coaching, public relations and communications consultancy based in New Orlea...27 Oct, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
- Meet Doug McMillon, who unloaded Walmart trucks as a teenager in 1984; 30 years later, he became CEO of the retail giantMcMillon graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He returned to Walmart in 1...26 Oct, 2026, 09.42 PM IST
- Meet Ryan Deiss, who started an online business with just $500 in 1999; how he built DigitalMarketer and grew his digital marketing empireRyan Deiss was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He started building basic websites for clients who wer...26 Oct, 2026, 07.11 PM IST
- Meet Phil Knight, Nike co-founder who sold shoes from his car trunk in 1964, 61 years later, he and his wife pledged $2 billion to a cancer institutePhil Knight was a runner at the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business. While studying there, he lo...26 Oct, 2026, 06.00 PM IST
- Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by MetaMahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based cla...24 Oct, 2026, 05.58 PM IST
- In 2016, AJ launched Carrd with just $500; by 2024, his one-page website builder was estimated to generate $1.5 million a yearAJ defines Carrd as a platform which allows people to create simple and single-page websites. Notably, people do not need to have coding sk...23 Oct, 2026, 09.06 PM IST
- Zetwerk’s early backers sit on up to 36x returns post listingThe listing provides liquidity for investors who backed an industrial business when venture funding largely favoured software and consumer ...23 Oct, 2026, 08.47 PM IST
- Infosys cuts FY27 guidance; Zetwerk's muted market debutInfosys has lowered its FY27 revenue guidance despite a rise in Q2 profit. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.23 Oct, 2026, 08.13 PM IST
- Zetwerk eyes manufacturing demand from AI, clean energy as shares debutShares of the business-to-business manufacturing platform opened at Rs 159 on the BSE, a 5.3% premium to the Rs 151 issue price, and at Rs ...23 Oct, 2026, 11.12 AM IST
- Meet Hannah Pollack, a former marine who spent $20 on an ice cream sandwich side hustle in 2016; 10 years later, her business was making $3 million a monthPollack and Xavier worked on the business. They started making ice cream sandwiches for just $20. Usually, this is not a very big investmen...22 Oct, 2026, 11.17 PM IST
- Meet Joe Popelas, who started an AI ebook business with just $500; two years later, it was valued at more than $1 millionHis journey began soon after he graduated from high school in 2020. By then, he had already explored how to use GPT-3 and also create the b...21 Oct, 2026, 09.22 PM IST
- How Byju’s parent funded Aakash rights issue; Zetwerk IPO fully subscribedHappy Dussehra! Byju’s parent used money repaid by Great Learning to back Aakash’s rights issue. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Di...20 Oct, 2026, 07.51 AM IST
- Meet Ali Partovi, man who bet on young talent and backed Cursor and Kalshi; his $150 million Neo fund reached $1.2 billion in value by the end of 2025Partovi is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He founded Neo in 2017. He had earlier invested in technology companies, which included Face...19 Oct, 2026, 06.11 PM IST
- Meet Jim Yu, who co-founded BrightEdge with just $5,000 in 2007; by 2025, the SEO software company was generating an estimated $100 million a yearJim Yu made his own path and achieved success. Despite not having a huge amount of money initially, Yu started his business. He co-founded ...15 Oct, 2026, 09.39 PM IST
- Zetwerk IPO subscribed 0.23 times on day 1The QIB (qualified institutional buyer) segment was subscribed 0.30 times, the NII (non-institutional investor) component 0.09 times, and t...15 Oct, 2026, 08.34 PM IST
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