Earning an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, Ridhi worked in L&T finance but only for a year. She discontinued her role as an employee to start her own company, an online grocery store which is in its beta stage. Being a fellow student in IIM Calcutta, she is declining all the offers and avoiding campus placement just to launch her online startup with an accumulated investment of 5 lakh.

Butool Abbas

Declining a job offer from an heavily paying IT giant, Butool Abbas co-founded Thinking Thread Design. Out of the 14 companies incubated in IIT Kanpur, Thinking Thread Design is one among them. This startup has four fold ventures under its brand and will soon roll out from the incubation centre in the next few months. One of its brands, Oink, an online lifestyle brand already raised 25 lakhs in funding. Interestingly, Abbas has also been selected for the Embassy's international leadership programme.

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