India Founder Interviews

The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

Rishi Das is a serial entrepreneur who helped shape India’s talent story with CareerNet and later co-founded IndiQube to redefine flexible workspaces. His approach blends ecosystem thinking, employee-centric design, and frugal innovation, doing more with less while building sustainable growth across India’s tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

Mani Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a billion dollar SaaS company that remains proudly private after nearly three decades of innovation. Known for its culture of experimentation, long term thinking, and deep commitment to talent creation, Zoho has redefined what it means to scale responsibly while staying true to its roots in India.

Dhanush Radhakrishnan is the founder of Clone Robotics, building musculoskeletal androids driven by fluidic artificial muscles. His thesis is simple: copy human anatomy one to one, pair it with modern deep learning, and you get human level strength, speed, and dexterity in a soft body at a cost that can scale.