1. Successful Entrepreneurs
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Successful Entrepreneurs

2. V. G. Siddhartha
 V. G. Siddhartha is an Indian entrepreneur from Karnataka and is known as the founder of the chain of Cafe Coffee Day outlets
Amalgamated Bean Company grows coffee in Chikmagalur and exports about 28,000 tonnes of coffee annually and sells another 2,000 tonnes locally for about 350 million each year
His coffee growing and trading company alone has an annual turnover of 25 billion
He was the first entrepreneur in Karnataka to set up a cafe in 1996 and now he has 1,550 Cafe Coffee Day in the country
He was awarded entrepreneur of the Year title by the Economic times and Amalgamated Bean Company is the largest producer of Arabica beans in Asia exporting to various other countries

3. Pankaj Chaddah and Deepinder Goyal
India’s largest restaurant search and food delivery start-up Zomato, started by these two Gurgaon based employees of Bain & Co.
Zomato now has its presence over 23 countries including United Kingdom, Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia
The service began as Foodiebay in 2010 and later was renamed to Zomato
It gathers information from restaurants across the globe on a regular basis to ensure data is fresh, also food lovers can share their reviews and photos
Zomato’s total funding comes to US$ 225 million which comes from a close set of four investors: Info Edge, Sequoia India, VY Capital and Temasek Holdings
The Economic Times awarded Zomato as the Start-up of the Year in 2014

4. Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom
 Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur and programmer, best known as the co-founder of Instagram with Mike Krieger
Instagram is mobile photo sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos on the service, as well as through variety of social networking platforms
It was launched in 2010 as a free mobile application for the iOS mobile platform via the Apple App store and released for Android devices two years later in April 3, 2012
The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014
The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$ 1 billion in cash and stock
In 2013, Instagram grew by 23% while Facebook, as the parent company, only grew by 3%

5. Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. Also he is the youngest billionaire in the world.
His net worth is estimated to be US$ 53.6 billion as of 2017, ranking him fifth richest person in the world
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory rooms in February 2004 and was assisted by his roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students; however they expanded it to Boston, Ivy League schools and Stanford University
In 2012, Facebook went public at US$ 38 per share and the company was valued at US$ 104 billion.
In 2015, Facebook became fastest company to reach market cap of US$ 250 billion. Facebook has more than 1.8 billion monthly active users as of December, 2016

6. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor and industrial designer.
Jobs and Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s
Steve Jobs with Steve Wozniak started Apple in his parents garage when he was 20. They worked hard and in ten years Apple had grown from two of them in garage to a US$ 2 billion company with over 4000 employees
Just after the release of Macintosh, Jobs was fired at the age of 30 from his own company because of diverging visions for the future as the Board of Directors didn't side with Jobs
After that he started NeXT and another company Pixar which went on to create world’s first computer animated film , Toy Story and is now most successful animation studio
In a remarkable turn of events Apple bought NeXT, Jobs returned to Apple and the technology developed by them at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance
In 2014 , Apple became the first US company to be valued at US$ 700 billion

7. J. W. Marriott
In 1927, Founder and Chairperson JW Marriott started a root beer stand with their young business which presently is the biggest name in Hospitality Industry
Now it is world’s largest hotel company with properties offering more than 1.1 million rooms across 30 brands in over 110 countries
He was the pioneer in airline catering when he provided packed boxed lunch to passengers at South Washington DC
In 1957, Marriott came up with first hotel and world’s largest motor hotel with 365 rooms and an innovative feature of drive-in registration desk
After him, his son Bill Marriott contributed to make Marriott into a diversified hospitality company which now manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and lodging facilities
In 2016, Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels and Resorts

8. Ritesh Agarwal
Rahul Agarwal is one of the most famous and accomplished young Indian entrepreneurs
He is the co-founder and CEO of OYO rooms currently is operated in many countries and all credit for its growth goes to him and his splendid team
OYO rooms is Indian hotel brand that owns and operates as well as aggregates standardised hotel rooms
His start-up standardised India’s unbranded hotels and then markets them on its website and application- the toiletry it supplies to every hotel is one small effort at standardisation
He received the business world young entrepreneur award in the year 2015 and was named in the Forbes list of 30 under 30 in the consumer tech sector which in itself is such a great venture
The company has around 6500 hotels in 220+ cities of India, and has been named India’s largest budget hotel chain

9. Kallol Banerjee and Jaydeep Burman
Faasos is an Indian food on demand company that was incorporated in 2011
Faasos operates in the 16 of the largest cities in India and takes customer orders via its mobile app
It receives 10,000 orders a day across India and has recorded a growth rate of 20-25% month-on-month
It launched its mobile app in 2014, users can look at the daily changing menu presented by the application and can place order within the app itself
It raised its funding from US$ 5 million in 2011 to 30 million in 2015 from three investors Russian Internet-focused Investment firm ru-Net, Sequoia Capital and Lightbox Ventures

10. Brian Acton and Jan Koum
Jan Koum is an Ukrainian- American internet inventor and computer programmer. He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp with Brian Acton, also a programmer and Internet entrepreneur
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware, cross-platform and end to end encrypted instant messaging application for smart phones.
It was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo!
At one point they applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected in 2009
Five years later WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for approximately US$ 19.3 million
By 2016, WhatsApp had the user base of over one billion, making it the most popular messaging application

11. Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, entrepreneur, intolerant of the mediocre. His frank approach and controversial character has helped him climb, first, to the top of the chef profession and then build a profitable business empire, Gordon Ramsay Holdings Ltd.
He’s now the highest earning chef in the world and has 16 Michelin stars to his name with his signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsey, London holds three stars since 1990
All of Ramsay’s business interests are held in the company Gordon Ramsay Holdings Limited, which was in partnership with his father-in-law Chris Hutcheson, owning 69% stake
He has a net worth of $160 million, he makes $225,000 and he earns an additional $45 million per year from his media and restaurant empire
Some of his famous restaurants are as follows Petrus, Savoy Grill, Maze and Bread Street Kitchen