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Founder & CEO · Nykaa
Falguni Nayar
Left investment banking near 50 to build India's beauty giant.
- Founded
- 2012
- HQ
- Mumbai, India
- Sector
- E-commerce
- Company
- Nykaa
The story in brief
After nearly two decades at Kotak Mahindra, Nayar founded Nykaa in 2012 to fix India's fragmented beauty retail market.
Nykaa's 2021 IPO made her India's richest self-made woman at the time.
Read the full story · 5 min readStarting Over at 50: Falguni Nayar Left Investment Banking to Build Nykaa→Lessons for founders
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Experience is an advantage
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Trust is a feature
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Teach, then sell
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