Shark Tank India Season 3 is looking promising to be an interesting watch with the addition of new entrepreneurial faces to the Shark (judges) panel every now and then
While the third season of the popular business reality show features Anupam Mittal, Vineeta Singh, Namita Thapar, Amit Jain, Aman Gupta and Peyush Bansal in the Shark panel, it also introduced some new businessmen among them as new Sharks
After OYO Rooms founder Ritesh Agarwal and Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal , another entrepreneur Azhar Iqubal has been introduced as a new Shark of Shark Tank India Season 3
Here are 10 interesting facts about Azhar Iqubal, the new Shark of Shark Tank India Season 3-
1. Iqubal is the co-founder and CEO of the Inshorts app and Public app.
2. He is a college dropout who took a big leap of faith in his 20s and a massive risk to build his business empire
3. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, Iqubal dropped out midway from academics to start India’s top-rated English news app Inshorts
4. He founded Inshorts alongside his classmates Anunay Arunav and Deepit Purkayastha who are also IIT dropouts
5. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science in IIT Delhi
6. Iqubal has mentioned ‘College Dropout’ in his education details on LinkedIn page
7. His efforts have today made Inshorts one of the the largest players in the social media industry with 1.2 crore Indian users
8. The 30-year-old entrepreneur initially started Inshorts as a Facebook page in partnership with Deepit Purkayastha and Anunay Arunav
9. They launched Inshorts app in 2013. After initial success, the application was launched for usage in smartphones
10. He believes in the mantra that ‘where you come from and whether you have a degree or not does not matter, what matters is whether you have hunger, discipline and focus’