Founders & Startups
Agritech Founders Transforming Indian Farming
The average Indian farm is about 1.08 hectares — roughly the size of one and a half football pitches. According to the 2015–16 Agriculture Census, 86%…
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The Weekend Leader is an independent digital magazine that tells the stories of India’s entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, innovators and changemakers. Our editorial team interviews the people behind the businesses and causes we cover, checks the key facts, and writes about the whole journey — the early struggles, the wrong turns and the decisions that made the difference — so readers can take something real from every story.
CEOs & Business Leaders
What Makes a Good Leader? 10 Lessons From Indian CEOs
A team lead has to tell her team that the project they spent three months on is being cancelled. She…
Entrepreneurs
How Indian Founders Survived Their Early Failures and Setbacks
Founder profiles usually begin at the funding round or the IPO. The years before — the unpaid loan, the product…
Business Strategy
7 Bootstrapping Lessons From Indian Founders
The most useful bootstrapping lessons from Indian founders are simple to say and hard to practise: sell something people will…
Entrepreneurs
10 Startups From Tier-2 Cities in India You Should Know
Some of India’s most useful startups were not built in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR or Hyderabad. If you are looking for…
Entrepreneurs
Dhirubhai Ambani Biography: Life, Reliance and Legacy
Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) was the Indian entrepreneur who founded Reliance in 1958 as a small trading firm in Bombay and…
CEOs & Business Leaders
Real Estate Founders Who Shaped Delhi-NCR | History
From Delhi’s first private colonies to Gurugram’s office towers and Noida’s housing societies — the founders behind Delhi-NCR’s real estate,…
Founders & Startups
Sairee Chahal SHEROES Story: From Fleximoms to Mahila Money
Sairee Chahal is an Indian entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of SHEROES, a women-only online community that…
Changemakers
Social Entrepreneurs in India: 20 Changemakers and What They Built
Millions of Indian homes still struggle to get reliable electricity, good schooling, affordable healthcare or a bank that will lend…
Entrepreneurs
First-Generation Entrepreneurs in India: 20 Founders Who Started From Scratch
A first-generation entrepreneur is someone who starts a business without a family business behind them — no inherited company, customers,…
Entrepreneurs
25 Women Entrepreneurs in India
India’s most influential women entrepreneurs have built companies that changed how the country shops, saves, eats, heals and invests. Some,…
Social Leaders
Anil Kapoor Biography: From Childhood Struggles to Bollywood Stardom at 69
Anil Kapoor is one of the rare Indian actors who has remained relevant across several generations. From the streets of…