Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Beer, brewing and biotech
How one woman built a pharmaceutical empire after failing to get a job brewing beer. This is the story of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, India’s first female self-made billionaire.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw built a pharmaceutical empire after failing to get a job brewing beer. She also overcame gender bias to become India’s first self-made female billionaire. Her company Biocon is now Asia's biggest insulin producer. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng follow her story, from a childhood living on a brewery compound in Bangalore to adventures in Australia and Ireland. How did Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw go from extracting enzymes from papaya fruit to mass-manufacturing medicines and being named among Time magazine's most influential people in the world? She calls herself an accidental entrepreneur; Simon and Zing decide whether they think she’s good, bad or just another billionaire.
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