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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Thoughts on age

How Nima Ghamsari's Blend Labs prevented the US mortgage market meltdown

The former semipro poker player bet big that fintech wasn't just for startups. He has built Blend Labs into a $3 billion business by weaning the nation's biggest lenders off their steady diet of reams of dead trees—and he's about to go public

Forbes India Roaring 50s: When age is just a number

Startup founders, our brains have been hardwired to believe, are young—mid-20s or thereabouts—with bellies bursting with fire and an insatiable appetite for risk. But the founders in our Roaring 50s special prove age may be just a number in the journey to a bigger, multi-digit figure

Four entrepreneurs prove it's never too late to start up

Taking the entrepreneurial plunge after doing corporate jobs for years isn't easy. But these four businesspersons have proved it's never too late to follow your heart

How to give in to your compulsive idea, Virendra Gupta style

After quitting the stability of corporate life, VerSe's founder dove in to create solutions to bridge the digital divide for rural India. The result is a $3 billion juggernaut

Retirement. Realisation. Restarting: How Sudheer Koneru built Zenoti into a global unicorn

Hanging up his boots at 40 after a successful professional and entrepreneurial stint, Koneru shifted his focus to health and wellness, later starting Saas company Zenoti which turned unicorn last year

How third-time entrepreneur Srikanth Iyer got it right

It took the founder of HomeLane, India's biggest home interiors brand, 20 years to realise what he didn't want to do—and that the lesson was as important as recognising what he did want

Entrepreneurship, dotcom bust, starting up again: How GupShup's Beerud Sheth keeps the fire going

As a second-time founder, Sheth got a first-hand experience of the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. He's built an enterprising company in GupShup

Bankruptcy, experience, and wisdom: Hemant Jalan's Indigo Paints stint is not for the faint-hearted

Staring at a bankrupt venture after a decade, and starting up in his 40s, Hemant Jalan always knew he was an entrepreneur at heart, and he was willing to bet on it. Frugal, practical but bold, the 63-year-old founder's venture had a blockbuster IPO this year

Staying hungry and foolish: How Kamesh Goyal started up at 50 and built a unicorn

For the insurance veteran turned rookie founder, age was just a number when he decided to start Digit Insurance in 2015. Five years later, his company is a unicorn, with a valuation of $3.5 billion

Roaring 50s: Not age, it's mileage

A bunch of gritty founders took the plunge into entrepreneurship—some for the second and third time—in their late 30s and 40s, and found themselves peaking during their roaring 50s

Manish Rathi and Kapil Raizada: Chugging along for the long haul

In 2011, the rookie founders started their journey with a mobility platform for rail travel. A decade later, both are in their 50s, and have another revenue engine: Inter-city buses