10 Aggressive Decisions that Helped Indian Entrepreneurs Succeed


8. Sanjeev Bikhchandani: “I wanted independence and it had to be in a business.”

Bikhchandani is the founder of Naukri.com which is India’s number one job portal at a time when there is a serious scarcity of employable people in almost every sector of business and industry. He is the best story of grabbing an opportunity with lots of determination and hard work.

Most Decisive Moment: Bikhchandani’s father was in government service and he was brought up in government colonies. As it is standard aspirations of parents in government, that one would do engineering or become a doctor, Bikhchandani’s elder brother went to IIT and then to IIM for higher studies.

Bikhchandani took a decision not to go the conventional way and not to join government service, after seeing his father’s weak financial position. He told his father that since he wanted independence, he had to do a business. It was his dream and he followed it.