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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

At Indian banks, new leaders face new challenges

India's largest banks, HDFC Bank and State Bank of India, are unlikely to witness major hiccups in the coming quarters. But their new leaders—both banking veterans—will find it hard to create their own legacies

The power of failure with Ravi Shastri, who turns entrepreneur at 58

Former cricket captain Ravi Shastri has launched personal grooming brand 23 Yards; he speaks to Forbes India about business, his approach as Team India coach, and learnings from the game and his stellar career

"Poor as hell" to billionaire: The rise and rise of Tyler Perry

How Tyler Perry built an entertainment empire and changed show business forever

Forbes 400 richest Americans: Pandemic be damned

America's 400 richest people are worth a record $3.2 trillion, up by $240 billion from a year ago. Even in these trying times, mega-fortunes are still being minted.

The Anti-Facebook: Facebook co-founder's slow-burn startup finally has its moment

Amid a herd of grow-at-all-cost unicorns, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's second act is a carefully constructed tortoise. As the global workplace has suddenly gone virtual, Asana, the team-management software he has spent 12 years cultivating, is poised to win the race

Cloud 100: Forbes list of world's top private cloud companies

For the fifth straight year, Forbes, along with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, provides the definitive ranking of the world's top private cloud companies

Reed Hastings rewrites the Hollywood script

Netflix had already upended Hollywood when the pandemic hit. But by making use of a highly unusual management style, its billionaire founder has positioned his juggernaut to prosper like few companies in the world right now

Biotech's Barnum and his Covid cures

Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong's radical cancer treatments made him one of the wealthiest physicians on earth. Now the master of medical marketing believes his drug therapies could defeat the "crisis of our time"—and there are plenty of reasons to think he'll deliver more Hippocrates than hype

The Barons of casino capitalism

By hooking disillusioned millennials on its zero-commission, gamified trading app, Robinhood has forever changed the retail brokerage business. "Democratising finance" is the stated goal, but its founders have become billionaires by leading a new generation of rubes right into the jaws of Wall Street's most notorious sharks

In the Crosswinds

Ajay Singh belongs to a rare breed that revels in the Herculean odds of turning around an airline

Thoughts on cricket

Cover story: How SpiceJet is relearning to fly

Beleaguered with financial problems, SpiceJet is looking to leverage existing revenue streams to stay afloat in turbulent times. But the pandemic may not be the only headwind blowing its way