TOMORЯOW Inc. NAVIGATING THE TRANSITION OF LEADERSHIP FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

Majority of companies start with an entrepreneur at the helm and then years down the line grow into a family business. From the smaller businesses to leading ones like Adani and Ambani these are all Indian businesses branching out of family tree. Every year at Entrepreneur, we set out our sail to look for new age entrepreneurs charting new growth strategies. Here’s to the new chapter these entrepreneurs are beginning.

- PUNITA SABHARWAL WITH KABIR SINGH BHANDARI, SHRABONA GHOSH & DEEPA VAIDYA

Shraddha Kapoor ACTRESS THE CELEB INVESTOR 

After months of back and forth, we are aligned to meet on a Monday afternoon in Mumbai with the actress who is not only ruling the big screens but also our digital lives. She is the second most followed Indian actress on Instagram just behind global icon Priyanka Chopra and beating the likes of Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone. Shraddha Kapoor needs no introduction, as she has been winning hearts with her sweet voice and beautiful charm. As she says, “Acting is my first love but music fulfills my soul.” The moment she enters the shooting area she greets everyone with the warmest smile and flaunts her new haircut like an innocent child.

While growing up Shraddha was always amazed to see her father being involved in the process of acting but growing up she was in denial that she won’t be an actor as other people perceive her. As destiny had it, she dropped out of college from her undergrad at Boston to pursue her acting career. In her own words, “At the bottom of my heart, I always wanted to act. I would find it exciting to play different characters.” After a rocky start to the first two failures, she finally captured the audience’s hearts with Aashiqui 2 and as they say, the rest is history. The actress who will soon be seen in Luv Ranjan’s next starring opposite Ranbir Kapoor believed in pursuing her heart. She goes on to say, “I actually feel like an outsider even while coming from a film family. I had to find opportunities myself. My father categorically told me, I will not make any calls as he said he was an outsider when he came so I need to approach it like that.” She went on to find her road forward.