Before Porter, Pranav Goel spent his spare time listening to truck owners in Mumbai. Their idle vehicles became the starting point for a company - and a question about how to make a working day pay.

A cash squeeze nearly ended Webskitters in 2016. Atanu Sarkar’s decision to continue helps explain the founder’s enduring interest in training, trust and the people behind the work.

He set out to bring shopping online. Bangladesh’s neighbourhood retailers gave the PriyoShop founder a different assignment: help them keep their shelves full.

A chartered accountant who left the comfort of blue-chip advisory work to build an incubator for women who were told, quietly, to expect less - and then to expect more.