10 Successful Indian Entrepreneurs Who Were College Dropouts

Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia and his brother Divyank Turakhia who are widely known as the first Indian Internet Entrepreneurs, started their journey by founding an Internet and Web hosting company ‘Directi’ in 1998 with a modest investment of 25,000, the money that they borrowed from their father.

As of 2011, the company was estimated to be worth $350 million with over 550 employees and offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, China and United Arab Emirates. Early this year, they sold the business to Nasdaq-listed Endurance Group, but they still own the internet advertising business and top-level domains such as .press, .website, and .space. Divyank, a hobby pilot, owns a single-engine Cessna.

Pallav Nadhani

Founded in 2002 by a 17-year-old Pallav Nadhani, who had a quest for pocket money, started Fusioncharts.
A 100 percent bootstrapped company, FusionCharts helps you create smart charts with interesting animation, colorful designs, and rich interactive elements. Businesses can use them to create beautiful dashboards in their products and drive more sales

Now FusionCharts has 23,000 customers and 500,000 developers in 120 countries, including technology giants such as Apple, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, Google, and many more.

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