The document discusses several college dropouts who went on to become successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople. It profiles individuals like Malvika Joshi who dropped out of high school but was accepted to MIT, Sandeep Maheshwari who founded ImagesBazaar.com after dropping out of college, and Kunal Shah who founded Freecharge after dropping out of his MBA program. Many others are discussed like Ritesh Agarwal of OYO Rooms, Kailash Katkar of Quickheal Technologies, and Mukesh Jagtiani of the Landmark Group, all of whom achieved success without completing formal education degrees.

1. Most SuccessfulCollege Dropouts - Honors those who have become successful or
Rich despite not having graduated from high school or college

2. Ineligible for IIT, 17-year-old 'unschooled' Malvika Joshi
makes it to MIT - Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology
Meet the 17 year old Malvika Joshi who doesn’t have a
class X or XII certificate but has made it to the
prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), thanks to her computer programming talent.
The Mumbai teenager has been provided scholarship
by MIT as she is pursuing her Bachelor of Science
degree after getting a seat for being a three-time
medal winner(two silver and a bronze) at International
Olympiad of Informatics or commonly known as
Programming Olympiad.
Malvika found it difficult to get admission in elite Indian
institutes like IIT, where one needs to clear the Class 12
board exams.

3. Sandeep Maheshwari is the Founder of ImagesBazaar.com,
which has got a considerably large collection of Indian images –
over 10,00,000 images and videos with Indian faces from more
than 11,400 photographers and filmmakers from across India.
Besides being a founder and CEO of ImagesBazaar and an award-
winning photographer, Sandeep is a motivational speaker who
assists people to take a venture of discovering their real-self and
true potential to accomplish their dreams and goals in life.
He has received wide appreciation and recognition for his
significant contribution and won Young Creative Entrepreneur
Award, Star Youth Achiever Award, Pioneer of Tomorrow Award
andWorld Record in the Limca Book of Records.
He has also been profiled in the Business World magazine, which
is considered to be the most popular magazine for emerging
Indian entrepreneurs. In addition, he’s been featured in the
reputed newspapers, magazines, and television channels
including India Today, ET Now, The Economic Times, IBN7, News
and more.

4. Rahul Yadav is an Indian Business person, fellow
benefactor and previous CEO of Mumbai-based real
estate Website Housing.com.
After first building Exambaba.com, an online inquiry bank
of old exam papers that IIT Bombay requested him to
close, Rahul dropped out of school in his last year. During
the time spent building Exambaba.com, he had scholarly
coding, which empowered him to in this manner plan a
progression of Google applications.
In 2012, he alongside 11 different batchmates helped to
establish Housing.com after they had a troublesome time
discovering convenience in Mumbai. His rejection as CEO
by Housing.com leading body of directors pulled in
extensive media consideration. Consequently, Yadav
declared that he would be dispatching another endeavor.
As of August 2015, he was in arrangements with Paytm
for stores for the new venture.

5. Ritesh Agarwal is the man behind the ‘Ola’ for
rooms, OYO Rooms. The startup is a network of
technology enabled budget hotels.
This Gurgaon based company, was founded by
him in 2012. It is backed by Lightspeed Ventures,
Sequoia Capital and Green Oaks Capital and has
more than 700 hotels under its brand.
He completed his higher schooling at St. Johns
Senior Secondary School. A college dropout who
founded Oravel when he was 18 received its share
of fundings and accolades and later he rebranded
it to OYO Rooms.
With a current valuation of nearly 360Cr, OYO
rooms does nothing out of the box but provides
travellers the coolest yet cheapest efficient,
young, standardized rooms with no add-ons
attached to it!

6. Kunal Shah of Free charge, the famous platform which
revolutionized the online recharge system with three
step recharges along with providing offers of same value
was the brainchild of Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon.
The company was founded in 2010 and was recently
acquired by Snapdeal.
He did Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Wilson
College and later went to Narsee Monjee Institute of
Management Studies from which he dropped out later.
Kunal, founder and CEO of Freecharge.in has a rather
unexpected academic background- BA,
Philosophy and MBA – Dropout! Not someone you’d
associate with a hugeVC backing in India.
A refreshing change, to say the least! At the beginning,
Kunal founded a BPO company and scaled to 1200
people before taking Freecharge to the scale it has.

7. Born in a small village at Rahimatpur in
Maharashtra, Kailash Katkar worked his way to
the top to be chairman and CEO of INR 200 Cr
business.
He is the man behind Quickheal technologies Pvt
Ltd. 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. According to Rediff Business, Mukesh Jagtiani
was the first-ever Indian businessman to top the
list of ‘The richest Indian-origin entrepreneurs’
in the region of Gulf Co-operationCouncil.
He joined business school in London to learn
economics but soon left it and started his own
business.
Jagtiani owns the Dubai based Landmark group
which is a chain of retail-stores in the Gulf, India,
China, Pakistan and Spain.
There are more than 600 stores of Landmark
groups in these countries. His net worth is
estimated to be around $3.2 billion.

9. Deepak Ravindran a computer science dropout from LBS
College Of Engineering in his 5th semester in 2007 end,
Deepak never let his ideas caged by book and syllabi, he
broke all the bounds imposed by the education system and
followed his passion for computers which made him follow
the entrepreneurial way.
He founded Quest technologies which let people answer
someone else’s question which has been asked by a text
message. His primary company was Innoz
Technologies which was behind ‘SmsGyan’ handing
internet’s knowledge to people via texts.
His latest venture is Lookup, which is a local commerce
messaging app which lets users chat with local businesses
and shops.

10. Dropping out midway through his Commerce
degree, Gautam Adani went on to start his own
diamond brokerage company ostensibly named
Adani Group.
With a net worth of almost 6 billion dollars, it's
almost unsurprising that he was once kidnapped
by Anees Ibrahim and ransomed for 3 crores.
Today, the flagship of his Rs 27,000-crore
empire, Adani Enterprises Ltd, has been rated
among the 50 top performing Asian companies
by Forbes magazine.
His three listed companies Adani Enterprises,
Adani Power and Mundra Port and Special
Economic Zone have a combined market
capitalisation that places the group among India’s
top 10 business houses.

11. Chairman of Wipro and the 3rd richest person in
India, Azim Premji is a college dropout and once
again, from Stanford.
In 1966, the IT tycoon dropped out of Stanford.
Soon, at the young age of 21, he took over as the
chairman ofWipro.
Mr. Premji created a multibillion dollar empire by
starting the IT Company –Wipro.

12. A self-taught programmer at 13 and web designer, he
took a natural interest in the development of web
applications.
Seeing a clear market gap for an easy to use, user centric
approach to web-based ticketed support and visitor
engagement.
Varun Shoor established Kayako in 2001. He serves as
Chief Executive Officer of Kayako Infotech Ltd. and
oversees the overall direction as the leading product
architect, takes an active role in the design and
development of the product line.
He started the company in 2001 when he was just 17
with its first office in Jalandhar after dropping out of
college.

13. Mahesh Murthy has spent 29 years helping big brands
with marketing counsel, and 13 years helping startups
with marketing counsel and funding too. 19 of these
years have been in digital media.
Mahesh dropped out of Osmania University, sold
vacuum cleaners door to door.
He won notoriety and awards as Creative Director on
Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV for whom he
wrote and shot a series of top award-winning
commercials.
He is now the founder of advertising company pinstorm
which is an ad firm offering pay-for-performance
solution to companies across the world.

14. Amritanshu Anand is the co-founder of Retention.ai,
which allows app developers and marketers to track
uninstalled users and understand their behaviours.
It also enables companies to re-target users who have
uninstalled the app. He started his as an advisor at
Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kharagpur where he worked
to foster spirit of entrepreneurship in India.
Though, he dropped out of IIT he didn’t let anything
stop him from pursuing his interests which made him
found his company in May 2013.

15. Thirteen year old Akshat Mittal creator of Oddeven.com
has sold his company to carpool app Orahi.com for an
undisclosed amount. The site was developed and launched
in December 2015 by the standard 9 student anticipating
the odd-even vehicle rule implemented by the Delhi
government in January this year, to control pollution in NCR.
The name is catchy and easy to remember. It currently has
30,000 users and we anticipate more users to register after
the second phase of odd-even rule comes into effect on
April 15," says Arun Bhati, chief executive officer of Orahi.
Focused on home to office drops, Orahi recently raised Rs
3.5 crore from a group of investors from the Indian Angel
Network (IAN). The company plans to introduce a new
product for college-goers to carpool by end of the third
quarter of this year.
The young entrepreneur is a Class Nine student of Amity
International School in New Delhi. He plans to launch an
anti-corruption app in the future.

16. ThankYou …
From :-
Nitish Narayan Joshi – B.Tech (ECE), Diploma (ECE), MIRSE (UK),
IADL(UK), MCILT, IPWE, IRT (Ministry of Railways-India)
Executive - Business Development
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