The document discusses several first generation entrepreneurs from India who achieved success through innovation and hard work without access to wealth or formal education. It profiles entrepreneurs such as Kailash Katkar, founder of Quick Heal Technologies, an antivirus company born in India; P.C. Mustafa, founder of ID Fresh which produces fresh idli and dosa batter; and Ramesh Babu, a billionaire who owns a fleet of luxury cars despite owning a barber shop. It also discusses N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, and Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of the affordable cardiac hospital chain Narayana Hrudayalaya. These entrepreneurs demonstrated what Indians can

1. By Pavankumar R Kakaraddi

2.  The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an
innovator—a designer of new ideas and
business processes. Management skills and
strong team building abilities are often
perceived as essential leadership attributes
for successful entrepreneurs. Political
economist Robert Reich considers
leadership, management ability and team-
building to be essential qualities of an
entrepreneur

3.  THE ENTREPRENEURS THOSE WHO
WILL NOT GET ANYAID BUT USE THEIR
INNOVATION AND CREATE AN OWN WAY
OF BUISNESS AND SUCCEED IN LIFE ARE
CALLED FIRST GENERATION
ENTREPRENEURS

5. NOW LETS SEE SOME OF THE
ENTREPRENEURS AROUND US

6.  Born on the 1st of November 1966; Kailash
Katkar, a lesser known name is the Founder of the
Rs. 200-crore+ Quick Heal Technologies.
 A 22-year-old Quick Heal Technologies Ltd, in the
simplest terms is an Anti-Virus Company that is
born and based in India. He started with a job at
local radio and calculator repair shop and later
went ahead in 1990 to start his own calculator
repair business.In 1993 he started a new venture,
CAT computer services where around that time his
younger brother Sanjay developed a basic model of
antivirus software which helped in solving the
biggest problem of computer maintenance at that
time.Later in 2007 it was renamed as Quick Heal
Technologies. He achieved all this without any
formal education.

8.  This is the story of a man who decided to
become an entrepreneur and employ people
from rural India.Today, fresh idli and dosa
batter made by P C Mustafa’s company ID
Fresh reaches homes in Bengaluru, Chennai,
Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mangaluru
and even Dubai.Today, They produce around
50,000 kg in their plant. The total investment
must be around Rs 4 crore (Rs 40 million) and
our revenue is Rs 100 crore (Rs 1
billion).When they became a Rs 100 crore
company in October 2015, they celebrated in
grand scale. they have grown from producing
10 packets a day in 2005, with just their
cousin managing the kitchen, to 50,000
packets a day with 1,100 employees in 10
years.

10.  Bangalore resident Ramesh Babu, is a star in
his own league who runs the business of
cutting and styling hair. He is an ordinary
businessman, with an extraordinary wealth.
He is a billionaire and owns a rent-a-car fleet
of 67 alternative cars.At the moment his fleet
consists of around 200 cars, vans and mini-
buses, including imported vehicles—a Rolls-
Royce Silver Ghost, Mercedes C, E and S class
and BMW 5, 6 and 7 series. He has a fleet of
imported Mercedes vans and Toyota mini-
buses.“This is more of a passion,” he says. As
for being a barber, “I will continue to be one
as long as my hands are healthy.”
 Amazingly, Ramesh charges Rs 75000 a day
for the Rolls and his usual clients are
corporate bigwigs and visiting Bollywood and
Tollywood stars.

12.  After earning his master’s degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Murthy worked
in Paris and Pune. In 1981, Murthy co-founded
Infosys with six other software engineers with Rs
10000 borrowed from their spouses. He steered it
over the next two decades as its CEO until 2002
and chairman until 2006. Over the decades,
Infosys grew into a global software and IT services
firm, becoming the first Indian company to be
listed on an American stock exchange and
kickstarting the country’s outsourcing revolution.
In the process, Murthy and his co-founders
demonstrated that ordinary educated Indians
could create a new industry on par with the rest of
the world with their skills and innovation.

14.  Born in a small town in Karnataka, Shetty
was the second-youngest of nine siblings.
He chose to become a heart surgeon,
performing severals feats including India’s
first neonatal cardiac surgery on a nine-
day old baby and the first video-assisted
open heart surgery. However as the
founder of the Narayana Hruduyalaya
hospital chain in 2001, he is best known
for making life-saving cardiac surgeries
affordable for million of Indians using the
economies of scale. Narayana Hruduyayala
was valued at $1 billion in 2016.

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