With no brewing background, she built Kenya’s first major locally owned brewery and took on a monopoly. Then came the tax disputes that have defined Keroche’s last seven years.
She used to text taxi licence plates to her mother before getting in. That habit became Grab. The quiet co-founder who built Southeast Asia’s superapp from the other side of the world.
Two Estonians in London started swapping salaries to dodge bank fees. That private arrangement became Wise — and the transparency it was built on now cuts both ways.
A tweet about a childhood piggy bank became a platform with seven million savers. How Odunayo Eweniyi built PiggyVest’s operations — and then four more institutions around it.
He dropped out of Harvard Business School and spent a decade losing money on purpose, building warehouses nobody else would. Then Coupang’s scale turned a data breach into a national reckoning.
He spent months trying to open a bank account in Brazil. Most people would complain. David Vélez built the largest digital bank in Latin America — now serving over 135 million customers.
He taught himself aerospace by crashing radio-controlled planes, then raised $2.5m to build an aircraft that never lands — harvesting wind the way an albatross does.
She left a physics degree in Canada to build aircraft in Bengaluru. Khushi Mittal’s bet: flying cargo costs 20 times more than shipping it, and that gap is an engineering problem — not an economic law.
She was 13 when Disney turned her into a franchise. In 2026, she dropped her surname entirely. The story of how Miley Cyrus spent twenty years buying back her own name.
A rained-off daycare trip put her in a gym at six. She became the most decorated gymnast in history — and her most important decision was the one where she walked away.
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