Wow! Momo

Building employment is the biggest responsibility of any entrepreneur. In 2017, I decided to walk away from the comfort of advertising on my 30th birthday. No grand plan. Just a phone call from my friend Sagar J Daryani and a shared belief that a business should mean something beyond money! — it should mean livelihoods. His vision was simple and audacious: #10000 Jobs in 10 years. Today, Wow! Momo employs close to 7,000 people. 2,500+ in Bengal alone. From a 30 sq ft kiosk in Kolkata to outlets across 90+ cities — that's not just scale, that's purpose made visible. ” #BornInBengal . #BuiltInIndia .” — it's not just a line. It's the weight of every hire, every city, every family that bet on us as much as we bet on them. Being a Bengal brand teaches you things no B-school does. Perseverance when the odds aren't in your favour. Deep-rootedness when the world tells you to move faster. Humility when growth starts to feel glamorous. And emotional leadership — the kind where people follow you not because of a designation, but because they believe in where you're going. 8 years in. I'd make that birthday call all over again. As a child, I was most impressed by my Pujya Gurudev #SwamiChinmayananda blindly followed all his words of wisdom; what remains with me the most is his line #YouthIsNotUSELESS #TheyAreUSEDLess - at #Wow our single-minded agenda is to unleash the unlimited potential of the Indian youth, support young entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs, guide them to build formidable purposeful brands; and at #Wow build the biggest "Bengal to India to the Globe" story! Sagar J Daryani Binod Homagai Shah Miftaur Rahman Mithun Appaiah Rajiv Verma Avinash Singh Barnik Bardhan Pankaj Arora Vidisha Khandelwal Vikramjit Guha Thakurata