{"id":21342,"date":"2016-09-14T04:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=21342"},"modified":"2016-09-14T04:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:13:33","slug":"great-startup-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/great-startup-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes A Great Startup Founder? We Crunched Some Stats To Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the million dollar question – what makes a startup founder successful? Startup gurus pontificate on it, VCs have their takes, and been-there-done-it\u00a0entrepreneurs put in their two cents as well. But we decided to do some hard number crunching to figure out what makes startup founders tick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To start with, we selected the most successful startup founders India has – founders whose companies have touched a valuation of $1 billion or more. There are 14 such unicorn founders<\/a><\/span>: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal from Flipkart, Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal from Snapdeal, Vijay Shekhar Sharma from Paytm, Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah from Zomato, Pranay Chulet from Quikr, Naveen Tewari from InMobi, Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati from Ola, and Sandeep Aggarwal, Sanjay Sethi, and Radhika Aggarwal from ShopClues.<\/span><\/p>\n

We tried the analyse for the backgrounds of these people. It’s very hard to quantify traits such as grit and intelligence, so we looked at hard facts – education, career trajectories, and other information in the public domain.<\/span><\/p>\n