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40 UNDER 40 - THE YOUNG GUNS

July 2025

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Fortune India

FROM TRANSFORMING STORIED businesses, to pioneering new categories of business, to disrupting ways of doing business, the young guns on the Fortune India 40 Under 40 list for 2025 are a varied lot.

40 UNDER 40 - THE YOUNG GUNS

But it is only natural that businesses in the coming years will be led by this young crop of corporate leaders as India will have more than a billion people of working age by 2030.

And as the country strides firmly towards Viksit Bharat by 2047, it is these individuals that will shepherd private enterprises, crucial to the country's growth engine that will power this ascent. In the following pages, read about their journeys, their beliefs, and their mantra for growth as the young achievers of India Inc.

take fresh guard for a long innings ahead.

THE FAST & THE FURIOUS

AADIT PALICHA, 23/KAIVALYA VOHRA, 22 Co-founders, Zepto

FRIENDS SINCE the age of seven, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra are habitual problem-solvers. Their first startup was a carpooling app for parents. When the pandemic confined families indoors, they began taking grocery orders over WhatsApp and delivering them in an hour across Andheri East in Mumbai. But as consumer behaviour shifted after the lockdowns, the duo pivoted and founded Zepto in 2021. Zepto entered grocery delivery, which many called a graveyard for startups, and promised to offer the service in under 10 minutes.

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