“India’s Entrepreneurial Journey is a unique book describing the life and professional journey of 51 highly successful Indian industrialists and businessmen who have made billions from scratch. Their educational background varies from school dropouts to highly qualified technocrats or management graduates. Their family background varies from poor agriculturalists to highly qualified parents. Their social background varies from socially backward classes to highly respectable families. They had chartered unknown voyages and learned the vagaries of success and failure. They rode the turbulence of wages in big oceans and achieved their goals. It is easy said and done. “Nothing is impossible,” but they led by example after demonstrating that everything is possible. Most of them had no such big plans at the beginning, but yes, they had big dreams. They had some basic qualities to become successful in life. The book describes all this to make case studies for management graduates and other entrepreneurs, as well as aspirants.
It gives a different sense of satisfaction and inspiration to read their achievements, intelligence and decision-making abilities, hard work, and starting from scratch. Among these selected 51 industrialists, HCL, MRF, HDFC, Infosys, Kotak Bank, Nirma, Reliance, Lijjat Papad, Zerodha, Patanjali, along with Ragunandan Kamath of Naturals Ice Cream, Ravindra Prabhudesai of Pitambari, Dr. Anand Deshpande of Persistent Systems, are some different stories.
Ramesh Babu, a barber, and his travel business with all the expensive cars in the world stuns us.
Madhav Bhole has presented precise but remarkable information about each in a very interesting way in this book with simple easy to understand language.
