Who's the most inspiring startup founder / business leader you know?

👇🏽 who are some founders/leaders that you actually like and believe will be able to make great things happen. They don’t need to be famous.

Whom do you look up to the most? Whom do you want to become like? It can be someone you know, any celebrity, sports person, politician, etc.

Which founders are great to work with?

Trying to read up and learn about people who have epic done in their lives - via YT videos, books, podcasts etc. Looking for some names to start with. Let me know epic people from today/history that have inspired you 🙏🏻

Context: Folks do you think being a early member (~20 employees only) in a startup with founders who are celebrated entrepreneurs with immense influence and popularity helps you in your career and growth? The founder is a champion investor btw. Now I'm ONLY concerned about my personal growth as a PM. Do you think it'll be useful for my future?

There is so much negativity around startups right now due to the market cycle since 1.5 years and because of a few bad names but I think overall startups have created massive opportunities in terms of wealth creation, up skilling and giving major breaks to people to learn faster. I think this is largely a founder driven issue as they simply want to be cool and startup for the sake of it but I’ve also seen founders that are committed and passionate however is getting difficult to recognize them and find companies actually building a good product that is solving good problem statement AND not get toxic culture. Can people share some examples in the last 5 years of such founders/startups so we can discuss them more and get some positivity on this platform?

Really excited to do this! Here's a little bit about my career: - I dropped out of college to build a design studio with 20+ people for 4 years before leaving that to start another studio. - I’ve worked across most major startups in Bangalore (not including brand names here for anonymity) - I’ve worked across brand identity design, UX/UI, social media marketing, ad films, animation/motion graphics, and 3D Happy to answer questions about design, freelancing, starting an agency/studio, the design industry, etc.

Which are some innovative mission driven CEOs/founder of startups or even established companies, who are solving a big problem very innovatively. Also who are some globally such companies currently

- Deepinder Goyal has become a billionaire following a record rally in Zomato shares, which have surged over 300% since July 2023. - Zomato's stock hit a new high of Rs230 on the BSE, boosting its market cap past Rs1.8 trillion and making Goyal India's richest professional manager with a net worth of Rs8,300 crore. - The surge in stock is driven by expectations that Zomato's quick commerce business, Blinkit, will outperform peers and turn profitable sooner than anticipated. - Analysts expect Blinkit to surpass Zomato's food delivery business in gross order value (GOV) and strengthen its market position, despite a longer path to sustainable EBITDA margins. - Goldman Sachs values Blinkit at $13 billion, higher than Zomato's core food delivery business, predicting significant growth in GOV and EBITDA by FY29. Source: Money Control