BRAND STORY. Manish Taneja is a fast emerging name in the business world. Manish Taneja has made rapid progress in the business of beauty products. His company Purplle today also manufactures its own beauty products. Read the success story of Manish Taneja.
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Any professional person starts the business with a small label, but not everyone can reach the pinnacle of success. But if we look at Manish Taneja’s career, the picture is different.
Manish Taneja, CEO and co-founder of Purplle, started his career from zero. In the year 2005, he was an intern in a small company but the intention was to start his own company. So he worked hard and kept climbing the ladder of success.
today’s big news
Purple’s valuation
Manish Taneja’s company has rapidly reached the unicorn club of Indian companies. The name of his own company is Purplle. One would be surprised to know how Manish Taneja’s company joined the unicorn club in a short span of time.
Joining a company’s unicorn means its valuation will be $ 1 billion. One billion dollars means 7,700 crore rupees.
study and job together
Manish Taneja’s achievements will tell you further but before that let’s take a look at his career. Manish Taneja did B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Delhi between 2002 and 2007. After this, in the year 2008-2010, he cleared all the three labels from CFA to Finance.
He also started working during his studies. He first worked as an intern in an IT company. The company was in Bangalore. But Manish Taneja had to make his dream come true. Manish left that company. Started working as an analyst in another company. While working in Lehman Brothers Company, Manish studied deeply about the ups and downs of business. But Manish didn’t like it here either. Manish worked in Avendus Capita in the year 2008.
Company formed in 2012
Manish kept working for different companies in the same way. And in the meantime, kept planning to set up your company. Finally that time came in the year 2012 when he thought of making his company Purple. He took two more of his friends along. Their names are Rahul Dash and Suyesh Katyayani. Both Manish’s companions were engineers from IIT.
beauty is for everyone
Today Manish is called the CEO and co-founder of his company Purple. The slogan of his company is- Beauty for all means beauty is for all. It is clear that Manish’s company sells cosmetics ie beauty products. Looking at the profile of the company, Purple sells more than a thousand beauty products. It even manufactures its own products.
Eyes on 3000 crore business
Manish says that his company especially focuses on beauty products. Manish believes that beauty products have a business of Rs 60,000-70,000 crore in India. Manish Taneja has set a target of doing business of Rs 3000 crore in this market of beauty products.
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