Google is led by an INDIAN (Sundar Pichai)
Microsoft is led by an INDIAN (Satya Nadella)
YouTube is led by an INDIAN (Neal Mohan)
Adobe is led by an INDIAN (Shantanu Narayen)
IBM is led by an INDIAN (Arvind Krishna)
WhatsApp is led by an INDIAN (Kunal Shah)
Palo Alto Networks is led by an INDIAN (Nikesh Arora)
Micron Technology is led by an INDIAN (Sanjay Mehrotra)
FedEx is led by an INDIAN (Raj Subramaniam)
Procter & Gamble is led by an INDIAN (Shailesh Jejurikar)
At 14, his family went bankrupt and lost their home.
At 15, he was a delivery boy selling pirated CDs to survive.
He picked a philosophy degree for one reason: classes ended by 10am, so he could work the rest of the day.
No IIT. No MBA (he dropped out). No safety net.
Then he built FreeCharge and sold it for $400M.
Then he built CRED into a $4.5B company, processing 40% of India's credit card bills, while paying himself 15k a month.
Today Kunal Shah runs WhatsApp.
3 billion users. One kid from a broke Mumbai household now leads the most used app on Earth.
Congratulations Kunal. Proof that where you start has nothing to do with where you finish.
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