What is Fortune 40 under 40?
Fortune 40 under 40 is a list of 40 individuals curated by Fortune magazine which the publication considers most influential. Before 2009 the list was curated based on wealth of individuals but from 2009, the curation of the list started happening based on power and influence of the individuals.
What was Rohit Chadda’s first business?
foodpanda co-founder Rohit Chadda was featured among Fortune 40 under 40 for 2015. In a candid chat with the Fortune team, he shared that when he was in fifth standard in school, World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) was extremely popular among school students and collecting postcards of your favourite wrestlers became a popular hobby. He saw an opportunity there and started procure new and unique post cards would sell them to other students in school at a premium. This was his first attempt at business and self employment at such a tender age.
How old was Rohit Chadda when he started his first business?
Rohit Chadda was mere 10 years old when he first tried his hand at business. It was a simple trading business where he saw a demand of WWE postcards among his classmates which were hard to find. He seized the opportunity and started procuring such postcards from various marketplaces and started selling them to his classmates at a premium. He even did differential pricing based on the availability of the particular post card. Funnily at the tender age of 10 he was already applying economic fundaments of demand and supply without having a clue of what they actually were.
Not surprisingly he was featured among CNBC Young Turks and CNBC Awaaz Entrepreneur and soon after among Leaders of Tomorrow by Times Now.
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