Priya Adani
7 stories by Priya Adani
Aliko Dangote: Building Africa From the Inside Out Inside Out
The Kano-born trader who decided it was cheaper to build Africa's factories than to keep importing what Africa already consumed.
Ritesh Agarwal: The 17-Year-Old Who Checked Into Hundreds of Budget Hotels 17-Year-Old
Before OYO was a brand in thirty countries, it was one teenager with a backpack, a notebook, and a growing list of grievances about torn bedsheets.
Masayoshi Son: The Man Who Lost $70 Billion and Came Back $70 Billion
He was the richest person on earth for three days. Six months later, 93% of his fortune was gone. Then he wrote a $20 million cheque that changed venture capital forever.
Daniel Ek: How Spotify Convinced an Industry to Stop Fighting the Future Stop Fighting the Future
Napster had already gutted the music business when a 23-year-old from a Stockholm suburb decided the fix was not more lawsuits — it was a better product the labels could own a piece of.
Jack Ma: The English Teacher Who Built a Trillion-Dollar Empire English Teacher
Rejected by Harvard ten times and by KFC once, Jack Ma turned a Hangzhou apartment and $60,000 into Alibaba, the largest IPO in U.S. history, and the online marketplace that drove eBay out of China.
The Questions Every Investor Actually Asks (And What They're Really Listening For)
A pitch meeting is never about the questions. It is about what the questions are measuring. Here is the decoder ring from someone who has sat on both sides of the table.
10 bootstrapped founders who took zero VC money — and built companies worth billions.
The venture-capital playbook wasn't the only way. These ten founders refused outside funding, kept full ownership, and built enterprise-scale companies on their own cash — proof that the fastest path is not always the loudest one.