Top 10 Indian Colleges Dropouts Who Became Successful Entrepreneurs

College Dropouts have become cool these days. We all have heard about Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs as college dropouts who made it big in the entrepreneurship world, but we are not going to talk about them in this article. We will cover some of the Indian entrepreneurs who became successful after dropping out of college. Indians, by no means, are bound to the traditional way of success. They created opportunities and made it big globally.

Let’s look at the list of Indian college dropouts who became successful entrepreneurs, and we hope you get some motivation from their stories.

Indian College Dropouts Who Became Successful Entrepreneurs

Without any further ado, let’s get started and motivate you to be among them.

1. Mahesh Murthy

Mahesh has invested 29 years advising big brands on marketing and 13 years advising startups on marketing and funding. Nineteen of these years have indeed been spent in digital media. Mahesh dropped out of Osmania University and began selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He rose to prominence and received awards as Creative Director for Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi, and MTV, for whom he wrote and directed a series of award-winning advertisements. He is now the founding father of the advertising firm Pinstorm, which provides pay-for-performance solutions to businesses all over the world.

At Seedfund, Mr. Mahesh Murthy holds the positions of Managing Director, Managing Partner, Founding Partner, and Partner in addition to being a Co-Founder. Mr. Murthy started Passionfund.com in 2000, and he is its founder. As the company's founder and CEO, Mr. Murthy leads Pinstorm Technologies Private Limited. After running Channel V till the year 2000, he started Passionfund to support and invest in entrepreneurs. As a Creative Director for brands including HP, The Economist, Pepsi, and MTV, where he developed and directed a spot that was named "Asia's best commercial of the decade," Mr. Murthy also worked with Grey and Ogilvy.

Mr. Murthy formerly held the position of Vice President of Marketing at iCat. He was a partner, general manager, and creative director at CKS Partners, where he helped develop the Earth's Largest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997 and the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995. 1994 saw him join Amazon.com. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked in international advertising agencies for nine years, managing Microsoft, Pepsi, Intel, MTV, Unilever, and other brands. He worked with Star TV to revamp its youth channel, Channel [v], and give it a web and TV presence. Mr. Murthy made investments in WebDunia, Geodesic Ltd, Compassbox, and EBS Direct. He also serves Geodesic Information Systems Ltd. as a Non-Executive Director. He holds the position of Director for both Innoz Technologies Pvt. and Netcraft Retail Solutions Private Ltd. Ltd. Mr. Murthy worked at Geodesic Ltd as a director.

2. Azhar Iqubal

IIT, Delhi must be doing something incorrectly because this is the second dropout who has made 'news.' Yes, Azhar Iqubal is among successful IIT dropouts who made it big. He dropped out of college in his fourth year (seventh semester). He made headlines by presenting News in Shorts, the one and only app that cuts to the chase, delivering only the most important details in a news story to those who are too lazy or don't have enough time to read them all. The app ensures that each piece of news is communicated in less than 60 words. Do you have a minute? Keep up with the world with news in bite-sized chunks. It began as a Facebook page and has achieved such fame that it received INR25 crore in funding three months ago.

During the Entrepreneur Awards 2022, which were hosted by Entrepreneur India magazine, Inshorts Co-Founder and CEO Azhar Iqubal was awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the media category. According to the magazine, the honour is given to an entrepreneur who has excelled in the media industry. Inshorts, a 2013 startup, runs the location-based social networking platform Public and the 60-word news app Inshorts.

Azhar is thrilled to have won several esteemed industry honours and awards, the most recent of which being the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award. The Most Enterprising Brands, Leaders of Asia Award, Business World 40 under 40, Fortune India 40 under 40, Forbes India 30 under 30, and Forbes Asia 30 under 30 are just a few of the awards he has previously received. Azhar, who is from the Indian state of Bihar, enjoys driving and seeing new places. He enjoys taking his friends on road vacations.

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