Mompreneur At Mamaearth

GHAZAL ALAGH IS least surprised that Mamaearth, the company she founded in 2016, is already a leading unicorn valued at $1.2 billion. Sure, Mamaearth was never her ‘plan A’ — the near six-year-old D2C (direct-to-consumer) venture that started out as a baby care brand before spreading its wings was born out of the dire need to cater to Alagh’s elder son Agastya who had been battling a skin disease at the time of birth — but Alagh always had the knack and the hunger to build something on her own.

- ASMITA DEY

GHAZAL ALAGH AGE: 33 Co-founder & chief innovation officer, Mamaearth

 “The dream I had when I was studying was to be successful, independent, make money, and I knew that eventually, I will grow into a position of power where I will take critical decisions... Before me, no female member of either my mother’s, or father’s family had taken up a job or built something,” says Alagh, who was also an investor on Shark Tank India, the reality TV series that helped entrepreneurs scale up businesses.