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...
29 Oct, 2026, 11.31 PM IST
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
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
Mosu: A South Korean Michelin star success storyMosu, a renowned restaurant led by chef Sung Anh, specialises in sophisticated Korean cuisine using seasonal ingredients. The restaurant re...
29 Oct, 2026, 12.25 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
Rs 5,000 investment, Rs 1.4 crore annual revenue. How Mumbai homemaker turned her passion- making Maharashtrian snacks – into a flourishing brand with 70% female employeesWhere there is a will, there is a way. In 2016, after her husband lost his job, homemaker Geeta Patil turned her passion – making delicious...
27 Oct, 2026, 12.22 AM 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
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 Dennis Woodside, who began his career as M&A lawyer in 1990s; decades later, he became CEO of Freshworks after leadership roles at Google and DropboxWoodside went to Cornell University and studied industrial relations. Later, he earned a law degree from Stanford Law School. He started hi...
22 Oct, 2026, 07.18 PM 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 Samantha and Kevin Dwoskin, couple who started a mac-and-cheese side hustle in 2023; about 20 months later, Boss Cow had crossed $1 million in annual revenueThe couple used their personal experiences with food. Kevin had worked as a banking regulatory compliance consultant for 11 years. He had r...
18 Oct, 2026, 11.55 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