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Nakul DhullNakul Dhull is an Indian content creator from Faridabad, Haryana, who posts as Mitthu Don. His short videos, memes and livestreams built a following of more than a million on Instagram before television found him, and his week inside Bigg Boss 20 in October 2026 made him a national name for reasons that had little to do with comedy. He entered as the season's second wildcard, was reported to be out of the house within days after a physical altercation, and left behind an audience that arrived faster than his body of work could explain him.CreatorVineeta SinghVineeta Singh turned down the largest job offer made at IIM Ahmedabad and spent the next fifteen years building consumer companies instead. With her husband Kaushik Mukherjee she built SUGAR Cosmetics from an online lipstick brand into an omnichannel business sold in hundreds of Indian cities. She has been a shark on Shark Tank India since the show began in 2021.EntrepreneurVijay Shekhar SharmaVijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian technology entrepreneur from Aligarh who founded One97 Communications in 2000 and built its consumer brand Paytm into the wallet and payments app that most of India has used at least once. He took the company public in 2021 in what was then the country's largest listing, watched its shares fall for three years after that, and then reported Paytm's first full year of profit in the 2026 financial year.EntrepreneurVarun AlaghVarun Alagh runs Honasa Consumer, the listed company he built with his wife Ghazal Alagh from a search for safe baby products. He took Mamaearth from an online first brand to a house of seven brands with a national distribution network. He has since taken the company through a difficult distribution reset and back into record profits, and he joined Shark Tank India as a judge in season 5.EntrepreneurUpasana TakuUpasana Taku left a banking career in the United States and started MobiKwik from a living room in Delhi with her husband Bipin Preet Singh. Fifteen years later the company listed on the Indian exchanges, after two attempts at a public issue and a long stretch of losses. She is one of very few Indian women to co-found and then chair a listed payments company.EntrepreneurRohit BansalRohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded the online marketplace Snapdeal with his school friend Kunal Bahl in 2010 and served as its chief operating officer while it grew into one of the country's largest e-commerce companies. He began investing his own money in early stage Indian startups in 2011, and that side of his career grew into Titan Capital, a seed firm that has backed more than 300 companies and hundreds of founders. He is the quieter half of one of Indian business's best known founding pairs, and one of the most active angel investors of his generation.Entrepreneur
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