Ramayana director Nitesh Tiwari is an IITian, worked as a techie for just 4 months. His first film won two National Awards, and he went on to direct highest-grossing film that earned over Rs 2,000 croreNitesh Tiwari, an IIT Bombay alumnus in Metallurgical and Materials Science engineering, opted for advertising and filmmaking instead of a ...
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Mark Cuban shared rent with 5 roommates at 24, survived on canned food before becoming a billionaire; here's how he managed his expensesCuban recalled that his credit cards were taken away during that period and his food expenses were extremely limited. He even survived on c...
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- At 19, Udaipur teen builds Rs 1 crore chocolate brand. How his business sells 2 tonnes of chocolate made from fruits and spices
At just 19, Digvijay Singh from Udaipur turned his chocolate-making passion into a successful brand named Saraam during the challenges of t...
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Runway model at 3, acting debut at 9: Meet Brooke Shields, a movie star, model, and an accomplished author who faced the camera before celebrating her first birthdayBrooke Shields began her career in the entertainment industry at a very young age and gained significant fame. She achieved success in acti...
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Rs 10,000 investment created a Rs 600 crore per yer business: How Bengaluru man created flourishing IT empire that survived three recessionsBengaluru entrepreneur RS Shanbhag had just Rs 10,000 in is pocket but a vision and a relentless can-do attitude. The firm he established i...
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Meet Jamie Siminoff, who spent his last $20,000 on a Shark Tank pitch but got rejected; how he went on to sell Ring to Amazon for $1 billion; know his career journeySiminoff appeared on reality show Shark Tank in 2013 to seek funding for Doorbot. He asked investors for $700,000 in exchange for a 10% sta...
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Layoffs pushed Renee Rubens to rethink her career. She turned tea gifts into a business bringing in up to $30,000 a monthRenee Rubens turned her interest in premium loose-leaf tea into Symphony of Leaves Tea Company after years in corporate media sales and thr...
30 Oct, 2026, 02.18 AM IST
Samntha Ruth Prabhu reflects on the success of her Rs 120 crore perfume brand: ‘Success hasn’t taught me much…’Samantha Ruth Prabhu, whose perfume brand earned over Rs 120 crore, recently shared how suffering from an immune condition caused her to be...
30 Oct, 2026, 12.39 AM IST
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 journeyJohn Furner started as a part-time hourly associate at a Walmart Supercenter in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company's hometown. His first ro...
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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 billionAfter reportedly leaving the CEO role, Lukas Biewald felt that he needed to strengthen his technical knowledge as deep learning advanced. H...
29 Oct, 2026, 08.09 PM 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
Nirmala Sitharaman hits back at Rahul Gandhi over ‘criminally destroying’ Tata remarksNirmala Sitharaman criticized Rahul Gandhi for alleging the Tata group was being criminally destroyed. She accused him of politicizing issu...
28 Oct, 2026, 03.51 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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