Dosa Plaza: How Prem Ganapathy built Rs 30 Crore empire with seed capital of just Rs 1000

A class X passout with no particular skill set, I was lured to Mumbai, only to be robbed. It was an inauspicious start to my entrepreneurial journey, but it turned out for the best.

I belonged to a poor family from Nagalapuram in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district and had to abandon my dreams of higher studies to support my parents and seven siblings. I headed for Chennai, but only managed odd jobs, which fetched around Rs 250 a month that I’d send back home.