Founder stories that go beyond the funding news. How startup founders built, failed, pivoted, and scaled — in their own words.
Introduction Lisa Su has emerged as a leading figure in the AI hardware boom. Under her leadership, AMD moved from a turnaround story to a core player in the AI infrastructure supercycle. That matters now because the AI race is no longer only about models and apps. It is also about the chips, servers, memory, […]
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Most startups chase big funding first. Nitin Kamath did the opposite. In 2010, he and his brother Nikhil started Zerodha with their savings. Today, it is one of the biggest stock brokers in India. And yet, it has never raised a single rupee from outside investors. So how did he pull it off? The answer […]
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Introduction Rebecca Enonchong is one of the most important voices in African tech. She builds companies, advocates for founders, and improves digital systems across the continent. Her story matters because it shows how one person can influence policy. She supports startups and shapes public debate simultaneously. At first glance, her journey may resemble that of […]
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What does it take to become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24? For Alexandr Wang, the answer was clear. The key is to solve a problem that nobody else wants to touch. Wang saw that AI companies had smart algorithms but terrible data. So he built a company to fix that gap. Today, Scale […]
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Introduction Every outstanding company begins with a simple frustration. For ElevenLabs, that frustration started in a Polish living room. Two school friends, Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, grew up watching American movies. However, those movies were poorly dubbed into Polish. A single, flat voice read over every character. As a result, the emotion vanished. The […]
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By Sathish Ramasamy, a founder of SalemMango I am Sathish Ramasamy, born and brought up in Mottandipalayam, a small village in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu. I come from a traditional agricultural family where farming was not just a profession, but a way of life passed down through generations. Like many students from tier-2 […]
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Imagine you live three hours from the nearest doctor. You feel sick, but the trip costs a full day’s pay. So you wait. Then you wait some more. For millions of people in rural Africa, such waiting is just normal life. But that story is starting to change. A new wave of HealthTech startup founders […]
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In 2018, Aakash Anand walked away from his corporate marketing job with one clear vision: to build the world’s greatest perfume brand for India. Today, BellaVita stands as India’s number one selling perfume brand, a testament to relentless execution and profound consumer insight. This isn’t a story of overnight success or massive venture funding. Instead, […]
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Introduction Every day, a digger hits a buried gas line somewhere. Occasionally it causes a small leak. Sometimes, though, it causes a disaster. So what if a computer could warn crews before that strike ever happened? That simple question sits at the heart of Urbint. Founded in 2015 by Corey Capasso, Urbint uses artificial intelligence to […]
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