Start-Up To A Trillion-Dollar Dream

Vaibhav Gupta, Sujeet Kumar and Amod Malviya had many things in common. All three hailed from small towns, raised up in middle-class families, did their bachelors in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and worked at Flipkart at the same time. But what bound them together was an idea that was never conjured. Udaan took its flight when the three youths gave their dreams a design. The wind beneath its wings was a thought and its impeccable execution blueprint. It took barely 26 months for the country’s fastest unicorn to fly into the $1-billion league. It is this ability to ideate and the verve to pursue a dream that have propelled India to the 20th spot among the 100 top start-up ecosystems globally. The country’s conducive policy environment promises to cradle more than 100,000 start-ups by 2025, creating more than 3.25 million jobs, and...