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MUMBAI: Nearly four out of five of India’s leading young entrepreneurs are self-made, underscoring a shift in the country’s business landscape from inheritance to merit, according to the Avendus Wealth – Hurun India Uth Series 2025. The report shows that about 80% of business leaders under 40 featured in the ranking are first-generation founders.The study…
Eternal (formerly Zomato) CEO, Deepinder Goyal, has topped Hurun India’s “Top 200 Self-Made Entrepreneurs of the Millennia 2025,” pushing Avenue Supermarts promoter Radhakishan Damani to the second position. According to the list, which has been accessed by the Economic Times, Eternal’s valuation increased 27% in the past year to Rs 3.2 lakh crore. In comparison,…
From left, Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody, and Surya Midha (Image credit: NYT News Service) TOI correspondent from Washington: In a stunning testament to the boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI), three 22-year-old high school friends from Silicon Valley, including two Indian-Americans, have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, co-founders of…
At just 30 years old, Lucy Guo has joined the ranks of billionaire college dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, amassing a $1.25 billion net worth, according to Forbes. Guo’s meteoric rise came after her first company, Scale AI, was acquired by Meta in a deal valuing the AI data labeling firm at $29…
Shahid Kapoor has made his mark in Bollywood, first winning hearts with his chocolate boy charm in films like ‘Ishq Vishk’, ‘Vivah’, and ‘Jab We Met’, and later impressing audiences with hard-hitting roles in ‘Haider’ and ‘Kabir Singh’. Despite being the son of well-known veteran actors Pankaj Kapur and Neelima Azeem, he has always said…
The 30-year-old Lucy Guo has joined the ranks of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. The founder of AI data-labeling company Scale AI, which was acquired by Meta for $29 billion, and content creator monetization platform Passes, she offers a rare perspective on ambition, risk-taking, and the value of education—without finishing college.Guo studied computer science and…
