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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

How startup CFOs and finance heads are emerging as new-age strategists

In the digital era, CFOs are at the heart of strategy and making decisions, not just supporting them

Rashid Khan: Building for the connected world

The cofounder and chief product officer of Yellow.ai says its AI-powered chat is reaching people's homes via customer support at the world's biggest companies

Adarsh Gourav: The method actor

From working at a pani puri stall in New Delhi, earning Rs 100 a day to prepare for Balram's role in The White Tiger, to taking the metro dressed as his character, Gourav believes in diving deep into his roles

Nimisha Sajayan: Finding value in her roles

In a short span of five years in the Malayalam film industry, the 25-year-old actor has worked with a number of reputed filmmakers, delivering back-to-back successes including The Great Indian Kitchen, Malik, One, and Nayattu

Mehul Nath Jindal, Eeshan Sharma: Taking credit to those who need it most

The cofounders of BharatX are still students, studying at the National Institute of Technology (Trichy), and are disrupting the uber competitive fintech market in India

Rahi Chadda: Upping South Asian representation in luxury fashion world

This lawyer turned fashion influencer has worked for the biggest fashion brands in the world, and became the first brown male ambassador for Dior Beauty

Lakshya Sen: Putting Indian men's badminton on the global map

Learning fast, knowing when to execute the lessons, and a willingness to change makes Sen, the youngest on the 30 Under 30 list a champion

What do Singham, Simmba and new-age CFOs have in common?

Imagine Marketing (boAt) group CFO Ankur Sharma reckons the CFOs role has evolved from being reactive to proactive, from controller to enabler, and have to do much more than just good old policing

Tapping the 'invisible' opportunity cost: Vibhor Gupta

The 39-year-old CFO of Chalo believes that cutting five percent here and ten percent there to save cost doesn't do much good, while also thwarting growth. Instead he decided to find opportunity in a crisis

Tyler Sloat, the IPO maker

The CFO of Freshworks had two IPOs under his belt even before he joined the IT services company which debuted on the Nasdaq in 2021, and he believes he's the custodian of the company's raison d'être

Find the right fit, not degrees for the job: Groww's Sweta Gupta

Gupta has seen her share of ups and downs, and in the end has come away with a strong belief that it takes much more than CVs peppered with Ivy League degrees to be picked for the job

Meesho's Dhiresh Bansal and a banker's dozen

Bansal's rich investment banking background is helping the first-time CFO stay ahead of the game at Meesho

Arpit Chug, and the quest to remain razor sharp

After 17 years at American Express, Chug was looking for a challenge to upset his structured life, and he found it in Harshil Mathur's Razorpay

Meet the MSD of finance: Sharechat's Manohar Singh Charan

One MSD [Mahendra Singh Dhoni] is from Harmu, Jharkhand, and the other, Sharechat's CFO, is from Harmoo, Rajasthan. Both of them are good at coming off a sticky wicket

When the going gets tough, clock growth: ZestMoney's Priya Sharma

Sharma is used to being the odd one out, the basketball player-cum-engineer-turned-CFO of buy now, pay later platform ZestMoney reckons. And she's using it as her strength

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