Founder · IndiaDeepinder Goyal
He failed class 6 in a small Punjab town, then scanned a pile of takeaway menus at his consulting job and built the company that taught India to order food on an app.
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Scientist · IndiaSrinivasa Ramanujan
He failed college twice, did his maths on a slate because paper cost too much, and wrote one letter to Cambridge that changed number theory.
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Founder · United StatesSteve Jobs
He dropped out of college after six months, was pushed out of his own company at 30, and came back 12 years later to save it from near bankruptcy.
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Scientist · Austrian Empire (now Croatia) / United StatesNikola Tesla
He dug ditches for $2 a day, licensed his AC motor to Westinghouse two years later, and spent his old age leaving hotels with unpaid bills.
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Founder · Taiwan / United StatesJensen Huang
His parents sold nearly everything to send him to a US boarding school that turned out to be a reform school for troubled kids. He cleaned its toilets, waited tables at Denny's, and later started Nvidia in a Denny's booth.
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Scientist · IndiaA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A boatman's son who caught newspaper bundles thrown from a train, he missed becoming a fighter pilot by one place, then led the project that built India's first satellite rocket, and later became its President.
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Founder · IndiaRatan Tata
Raised by his grandmother after his parents split, he started on the shop floor at Tata Steel, went to Detroit to try to sell his struggling car business to Ford in a meeting colleagues called humiliating, and nine years later bought Jaguar Land Rover from Ford.
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ScientistMarie Curie
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