From film-making to founding Quikr? Born in a small town of Rajasthan, Chulet's success story is a motivation for every striving entrepreneur out there.

Eric Yuan left a comfortable job with a hefty salary to pursue entrepreneurship, because he realised that ultimately, it wasn't a risk if it was for his happiness. Now, Zoom competes with the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and commands a market share of ~ US$14 bn.

An entrepreneur from a young age, Chad Richison spotted a trend in the market much before his competitors and built Paycom, which has been recognized by Fortune magazine as one of the fastest-growing publicly traded companies in the world.

An inventor, engineer, soldier and a businessmen, the late Bill Hewlett dedicated his entire adult life to build the brand, Hewlett Packard, to what it is today.

Mark Zuckerberg started to build Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard University, only to later drop out to focus on expanding Facebook's business - it is now valued at upwards of US$450bn.

Just a teenager at the time, Michael Dell had the vision to capitalise on a growing need for computers. An excellent businessman, he went on to become the youngest Fortune 500 CEO.

Wanting to make lending more easy, there is a slight irony in the story of Kabbage, where they had to explore less-conventional means to get seed money.

Jimmy Wales had a deep love for encyclopedias and the way knowledge is presented in it; but he always thought there is more to it, which led him to build Wikipedia.

After their first failure, Nextdoor's founders Sarah Leary and Nirav Tolia had to come up with something they could pivot to. Their journey brings to light how deliberate practice can spark innovation.

Led by Mr. Narayana Murthy, a group of 7 engineers decided to set up a company and provide software outsourcing solutions to a rising U.S. demand. They ended up sparking a revolution that would change the way Indian companies were perceived abroad.

Though now known for its streaming service that accounts for 15% of the world's total internet bandwidth, Netflix was initially started by two serial entrepreneurs as a DVD mailing service.

At the age of 26, when a majority of the youth are figuring out what to do with their lives, Tanaka had started developing GREE.

Years before India's FinTech gold rush, BillDesk was founded in 2000. With a simple premise, it has quietly gone about becoming one of India's unicorns.

When Chris Wanstrath joined college, he took up English as a major to play safe. But his love for coding led him to drop it and build one of the most popular and beloved developer platforms.

Clark Valberg started by solving a problem that he faced himself. He took his opportunities as they came, and was able to create a company that went on to shake Adobe to its core.

Though he was the son of a billionaire entrepreneur, Mittal wanted to build something of his own. He succeeded in doing so by creating Hike, India's answer to WhatsApp.

How Patrick and John Collison, two prodigious brothers from Ireland, became the face of Y Combinator and managed to convince PayPal's high-profile founders their product wasn't good enough.

Mark Pincus grabbed the opportunity to grow his own business by collaborating with Facebook, which at the time was growing rapidly and had a huge user base.

Zhang Yiming directly competed with the existing search engine giant 'Baidu' and successfully built 'ByteDance' - a content platform that is now used by individuals & companies globally.

When Coursera was launched, it had no monetization plan. But its founders, two Stanford professors, had the vision to bring free quality education to all.

How a couple of passionate developers leveraged the power of open-source to create a widely-used platform, and then successfully monetised it.

Robert Scaringe realised that change can't be brought about for the better in huge car companies. Hence, he decided to build his own from the ground-up, with the goal of revamping an entire industry.

Since the technology to identify music directly from the device was not available at the time, Barton thought of building the technology himself.

Despite being a Silicon Valley legend, Hoffman had to go to great lengths to create LinkedIn in the aftermath of the dot com crash.

The three founders of Udaan decided not to have a CEO for their company, despite the huge scale of their business. Now, they're in the unicorn league.

Bansal's job-hopping within short periods eventually lead him to building Myntra. His story is a classic example of 'Never Settle'.

Evan Spiegel had the vision, when not many did, to turn his friend's eureka moment into an all-encompassing wave that shook Instagram to its core.

Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn waited for two long years despite having the blueprint ready for building Grammarly. Their story shows how patience can be one of the most powerful traits of an entrepreneur.

The poster boy of Indian innovation, Flipkart was born after its founders decided to build a better e-commerce platform than Amazon, while working at Amazon.

Now the pioneers of Australian tech startups, Atlassian was born out of a side-project that the founders had undertaken.

Travis Kalanick was a self-made millionaire when he sold his first company. The thirst for entrepreneurship stuck with him, and he went on to build a tech empire.

Koum's humble beginnings didn't stop him from creating WhatsApp, which at $19 billion became the largest-ever acquisition by Facebook in 2014.

Luis von Ahn, also known as the 'CrowdSourcing Capitalist', is an academic who strongly believes that education is a basic necessity and should be accessible to all rather than just 'the privileged'.

Stepan Pachikov's vision to build a great company exemplifies the saying 'Success has no age-limit'.

Sriharsha Majety had quit his job as an investment banker to pursue excitement again. Since he wasn't able to get a job in other start-ups, he decided to build his own.

Melanie Perkins went from founding a business in her mom's living room to building a software empire. Both companies were based upon a simple idea that she believed in.

Byju Raveendran started as a passionate teacher, who revolutionized the pedagogy in the Indian education system with his innovative product Byju's.

Both possessed by the aim of improving transportation, Logan Green and John Zimmer were two strangers who came together to solve a common problem.

Striking the right balance between pursuing his dreams and doing a 9-to-5 job, Deepinder Goyal envisioned integration of technology into a traditionally-operating food industry.

How a straightforward need for storing video footage after a party sparked one of the greatest phenomenons of the internet.

Jonah Perretti had become somewhat of an expert in making stuff go viral on the internet. He decided to create Buzzfeed to capitalise on that skill.

From winning a Hackathon to building one of the most successful online dating apps, Sean Rad did not let his perceived societal image get in the way of pursuing his entrepreneurial dreams.

Wanting to rid the world of piracy in music, Daniel Ek created Spotify. His story typifies entrepreneurship at its best.

How a teenager with an obsessive passion for entrepreneurship ended up creating one of India's fastest growing unicorns.

By 2011, within 3 years of its launch in 2008, Houston had built a juggernaut in Dropbox, which was pioneering the cloud storage industry. An unshakable belief in his product had led him there.

How Ben Silbermann underwent 3 major career changes in constant pursuit of his passion, before creating Pinterest.

Though widely regarded as Silicon Valley's fairy-tale story, Instagram had its fair share of elbow grease put into making it click.

How Stewart Butterfield took what he learnt from developing games and influenced a change in philosophy for office apps.

Starting out by solving a problem he himself faced, Brian Chesky's journey included a very clever marketing strategy to pay off credit card debt and keep his business afloat.