The Captainship

The Captainship is a collection of first-person narratives of nine first-generation Indian entrepreneurs, among India’s most respected for their value-based approach to organization building. The purpose of this collection is to share the journeys of the entrepreneurs as ordinary youths, with all the normal joys and insecurities of childhood and adolescence. The title The Captainship is inspired by the famous line from William Ernest Henley’s poem ‘Invictus’: ‘I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’ Illustrated by Anitha Balachandran. Edited by Anya Gupta.


The Captains include Ashish Gupta (Junglee/Helion), Sanjeev Aggarwal (Daksh/Helion), Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Naukri), Subroto Bagchi (Mindtree), Zia Mody (AZB), Ashish Dhawan (ChrysCapital), Vijay Sharma (One97), Satya Narayanan (CareerLauncher), and Girish Batra (NetAmbit).