Gyan has marked the eastern region of India's most populous state as the geography of its dominance in the daily market but it didn't come without its challenges
2003, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The engineer started with a bang. Born and brought up in Kaimganj, some 230 km from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Jai Agarwal went to The Scindia School in Gwalior, completed his graduation from the DY Patil College of Engineering and joined the four-decade-old family business of tobacco in 2001. His diverse educational background egged the third-generation entrepreneur to explore and stay out of the comfort zone. “The true method of knowledge is experiment,” he underlines, quoting English poet William Blake. “I stayed true to the belief.”
(This story appears in the 07 October, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)