Indian Startup Men provides profiles of several prominent Indian startup founders: 1) Rahul Yadav founded Housing.com, which raised $100 million in funding but faced controversy over Yadav's remarks. 2) Brothers Sachin and Binny Bansal co-founded Flipkart, one of India's largest e-commerce companies, valued at $1.3 billion. 3) Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah co-founded Zomato, a restaurant search and food delivery service operating in 23 countries. 4) Other notable startup founders profiled include Kavin Bharti Mittal of Hike Messenger, Kunal Bahl

1. Indian Startup Men

2. INTRODUCTION
• From past few years Indian startup ecosystem has really taken off & some entrepreneurs
have made a great impact
• Prediction is that from 3,100 startups in 2014 a projection of more than 11,500 by 2020
• Startup industry is certainly not a passing trend
• In such competitive industry there are some men who are leaving their strong impact
• They are not only growing with an extraordinary speed but are also setting a high benchmark
for other entrepreneurs

3. RAHUL YADAV: HOUSING .COM
• Everyone has heard about him as he bags the
prize for being most talked & controversial
face of Indian startup scene
• Things didn't go well for him when he spent a
large amount of money on marketing & made
foul remarks about some officials at Housing
• But the news that he getting kicked out of his
own venture made him popular
• His work at housing led him to Forbes India
list of 30 under 30 young entrepreneurs
• He is an IIT-Bomaby dropout & he started his
venture in 2012 with his 11 college mates
• Rahul’s real estate classified portal did really
well, It went on to raise $100 million in funding

4. SACHIN AND BINNY BANSAL: FLIPKART
• Bansal brothers are 2 most important personnel in
the Indian E-commerce industry
• Both completed their studies together at OP Jindal
Modern School, Hisar & then went to IIT-Delhi to
study Computer Science & Engineering
• Sachin worked at Techspan meanwhile Binny was
working with Sarnoff Corporation
• Both of them worked for Amazon before starting
Flipkart
• Initially Flipkart too started as a bookstore, later
they added more products & categories
• Bansal brothers in September 2015 were ranked
86th on the Forbes India list with a net worth of
$1.3 billion

5. DEEPINDER GOYAL: ZOMATO
• He certainly knows how to stay in limelight be it:
• Taking a stand against HSBC,
• Slashing a large chunk of his employee force
or
• Writing open letters to his staff
• When Mr. Goyal was at Bain & Co. along with his
co-worker Pankaj Chaddah he decided to scan
restaurant menus & upload them on an intranet
website wholly for Bain employees
• The website FoodieBay went public in 2008 & in no
time expanded to other cities, but only in 2010 it
came to be known as Zomato
• Founders quit their jobs to devote their entire time
to Zomato after their venture started gaining
popularity
• Today Zomato is available in 23 countries & it has
acquired a number of companies like Urbanspoon &
Lunchtime

6. KAVIN BHARTI MITTAL: HIKE
• Son of business tycoon Bharti Mittal,
Kavin is founder & CEO of messaging
application Hike
• He studied Electronics & Electrical
Engineering at University of York & then
went to Imperial College London to study
further
• In 2012, Hike Messenger was started & in
few months rasied $7 million from Bharti
SoftBank
• Hike is available on iOS, Android,
Windows Phone, BlackBerry & Symbian
operating systems
• Hike Messenger competes with apps likes
WhatsApp, WeChat and Viber

7. KUNAL BAHL AND ROHIT BANSAL: SNAPDEAL
• Both the founders were students of Delhi
Public School
• After completing school Rohit went to IIT-
Delhi while kunal went to University of
Pennsylvania
• After that Kunal went to Wharton School &
Kellogg School of Management, after that
he joined Microsoft
• Before they started Snapdeal in 2010, duo
started various other businesses too, but
nothing worked out as Snapdeal did
• Today everyone is familiar with it & it is one
of the largest online market places in India
• They have made quite a few acquisitions
including Exclusively.in & Freecharge

8. VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA: PAYTM
• Vijay finished his education from Delhi College of
Engineering, gettting an engineering degree was
difficult for him as he couldn’t speak English
• But that did not stop him from creating the
website indiasite.net in 1997, which after two
years was sold for $1 million
• He started One97 communications which also
happens to be Paytm’s parent comoany in 2005
• Vijay started Paytm an online recharge, bill
payment & e-commerce website in 2010
• Recently they added bus tickets & movie tickets
booking to its services
• He also took a stand in December 2015 against
Facebook's Free Basics saying that it was
against net neutrality

9. BHAVISH AGGARWAL: OLA
• Aggarwal received his Computer Science
& Engineering degree from IIT-Bombay &
joined Microsoft Research after that
• He was with Microsoft for two years & he
quit his job in 2010
• Aggarwal teamed up with Ankit Bhati &
started his own venture Ola Cabs
• Ola Cabs went way head & it became
India’s answer to Uber
• Ola is valued at $5 billion as of
September 2015
• Company has also made a few
acquisitions like TaxiforSure & Geotagg

10. THANK YOU
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