She talks about her latest book on Lala Shri Ram, one of India's earliest and most successful industrialists, why patriarchs of family businesses must trust the younger generation, and what young startup founders can learn from legacy businesspersons
Do young startup entrepreneurs of today have leadership lessons to learn from yesteryear businesspersons and industrialists? How did Indians do business pre-Independence and in Independent India, when the establishment was often suspicious of entrepreneurs? What does it take to build a legacy and ensure generations of people benefit from your work? These are some of the questions that Sonu Bhasin attempts to answer through a series of books called Entrepreneurs Who Built India.