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How Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal Cooked up the Perfect Idea for their Ventures
News 18How does a business idea come to a person? He spoke of how ‘cooking and food’ is a passion for Indians and how there was a need for creating a business around the idea of a ‘celebrity chef ’. So, when his friend at IIT Kanpur, Prateek Bumb, started discussing his internship with an Italian professor on using technology to reduce carbon emission in industries, Aniruddha saw an opportunity for commercializing this idea. At that award function, both the Tata CEOs said, “If you can solve this problem, we will be your first customers.” That made us think—if two of the most respected companies of the country are interested in what we are doing, then we are on the right path.’ That was how Carbon Clean Solutions began and today, they have moved their operations to London and raised over $26 million. Then I discussed with my friends and three of us got together and decided to become entrepreneurs, more driven by the idea and opportunity, than by the hangover of wanting to be an entrepreneur.’ The business idea could be based on a global business model and you could roll it out in your home market and be a success.
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