4 Ordinary Indians Who Created Extraordinary Business

Katkar’s strong determination and devotion made him an expert mechanic within a short time and after a few years, he was also keeping all the records of the repairing shop for his employer. Since then, things were going all favorable for Katkar in the repairing shop. The big turn happened to him in 1990, when he moved out of the repairing shop and decided to have his own repairing shop.

15,000 and a leased room in Pune flared the flames of the one-man venture. By the end of the first year, he made a decent profit from his repairing shop and this took him beyond the limits; the hunger of progress forced him to take computer classes. He completed a basic computer hardware course in 1991-92. This was the beginning of the anti-virus giant of India.

Katkar’s first computer break happened to be two personal computers from Pune with an annual fees of 2,000 each. By the next year, he got contracts from ‘New India Insurance’. This got followed by another company. These two contracts finally brought a turnover of 1 lakh by the year end along with four employees for Katkar.

Very shortly, Katkar and his younger brother, who is a computer engineer, started developing antivirus software. They sold their first antivirus for 700 under the name ‘Quick Heal’, which had a much lesser price in comparison to other available antivirus of that time. This made turnover to reach 12.19 lakh.

Since then, there was no looking back and today, Quickheal is the largest internet security provider in India with 610 employees, 23 offices across India and a reach to 50 countries.

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