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From my LinkedIn newsletter Architects of Scale. Every week I pull apart one founder's story and what actually made the company work.
By Neeraj Bansal · Article 004
Shantanu Narayen: How a Hyderabad Boy Built Adobe's Empire
How a boy from Hyderabad quietly took Adobe from under $1B to $25B in revenue, killed the boxed-software business at its peak, and became proof for a generation of Indian-origin CEOs that it was possible.
By Neeraj Bansal · Article 003
Liang Wenfeng's Journey: The Man Who Shocked Silicon Valley With a Side Project
How a 39-year-old from a fifth-tier Chinese city built DeepSeek as a side project from a hedge fund, treated chip constraints as a design brief, and accidentally rewrote the rules of the global AI race.
By Neeraj Bansal · Article 002
Nithin and Nikhil Kamath's Journey: The Brothers Who Democratised Wealth for India
In 2010, two brothers from Bengaluru launched a brokerage with zero fees and no external funding. Fourteen years later, Zerodha had 12 million clients, 4,700 crore rupees in annual profit and a company worth $8 billion. Built from savings, stubbornness and a belief that ordinary Indians deserved better.
By Neeraj Bansal · Article 001
Narayana Murthy's Journey: The Man Who Put India on the World Map
In 1974, a young Indian engineer was detained at a Bulgarian railway station for five days. He walked out with a conviction that would build Infosys and put India on the global technology map.