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Superstar Mamootty, worth Rs 340 crore, barely invested in startups, but one he had shares in earned over Rs 800 crore in 2025. CA says, 'He has a good…’The Bramayugam actor was previously a stakeholder in Motherhood, a maternal health venture run by his daughter, Surumy, and her spouse, Dr ...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Meet Jon Yongfook, who launched Bannerbear with just $500 in 2019; by 2024, the automated image-generation tool reached $48,000 in monthly revenueJon Yongfook Cockle is the founder of Bannerbear. He launched the project in 2019 with an estimated cost of $500. Bannerbear's task is simp...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Meet Shruti Gandhi, who launched Array Ventures in 2016; 8 years later, her first fund had returned all its capital to investorsGandhi announced the achievement in a year-end update in February 2025. It claimed that Array Ventures fully returned its 2016 Fund I in th...
- Meet Roger Chen and Amit Lakhani, who started Onyx Bio to build a 'virtual immune system'; in 2026, the startup raised $8 millionOnyx Bio is based in Berkeley, California. It announced the funding on October 8, 2026. The round was led by Dimension Capital. It had part...
- In 2026, three founders launched an AI assistant with its own phone number, it can book flights, order groceries; the startup later reached a $300 million valuationTab is designed to work through messaging platforms that people already use. It includes platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage. Users can se...
- 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...
- Who is Rex Salisbury? Man who started Cambrian Ventures; by 2025, its $20 million First Fund had backed 33 startups, about half reaching Series ASalisbury's Cambrian Ventures has one simple task, and that is focusing on early-stage financial technology companies. They are commonly kn...
- 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 ...
- From Rs 3,500 salary to Rs 1.5 crore per month: How this Ghaziabad man built an e-bike company with his wife's savingsGhaziabad's Krishna Grover, who started his career with a monthly salary of Rs 3,500, left his corporate job to build Herald E-Bike with su...
- Who is Lori Cheek? Entrepreneur who faced rejection from all 5 Shark Tank investors in 2014, here's how she refused to give up on her dating startupCheek founded Cheekd in 2010 as an online dating business built around the idea of helping people connect in real life. She appeared on Sha...
- Meet Armaan Dhanda, who left college at 22 to turn microbes into tiny factories, his biotech startup raised $2.6 millionDhanda co-founded the company with Samyak Baid, and they met at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The main approach of the busine...
- Meet Isabella Bedoya, who borrowed $20 to make pesto when her bank account was $300 overdrawn, her first experiment generated $120 in sales in a dayInitially, Bedoya used to prepare food at home, and shared work with people online. To her surprise, the response was good, and her homemad...
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