Cafe Cofee Day's VG Siddhartha missing: Dark side of entrepreneurship?
Updated: 30 Jul 2019, 08:12 PM IST
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The massive success of the IT and Digital startups... moreThe massive success of the IT and Digital startups in achieving fascinating valuations in short period of time, is attracting attention of the young millennials. Startups, led by bright technocrats in their 20s, are mushrooming all across the country. Venture capital funding is its all-time high and consumption of digital products and services are rising at an exponential pace. And as Spiderman says, ‘with great powers there must also come great responsibility,’ amidst the success of entrepreneurship in India in creating wealth for their owners and investors, not many are talking about the challenges and hardships faced by entrepreneurs in their journey. An extremely unfortunate incident that has come to light today, has forced all of India to sit up and notice the perils of running a business. VG Siddhartha - founder of Coffee Café Day – and a first generation businessman has gone missing in a very tragic undertone. Most of us remember and probably try to draw parallels to businessmen such as Vijay Mallaya and Nirav Modi, who fled the law