Dhruv Agarwala
Dhruv Agarwala, Group CEO, Housing.com, PropTiger.com, and Makaan.com, is a serial entrepreneur who has started and successfully exited ventures across education, mining and fintech domains. Here, Agarwala recounts in his own words his fascinating journey, and spells out a bright outlook for the real estate sector in 2021 to BrandSutra
Born into a business family.
I grew up in Calcutta, seeing entrepreneurship first hand as my grandparents on both sides, and then my father, ran their own businesses. That seeded a very early desire in me to go out and build something of my own. After obtaining a degree in Material Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in the US, I went to Stanford University, but left it to come back to India. Then I started a small iron ore mining business, to supply iron ore to steel plants. The mines were at Barbil in Odisha, and I would take a train from Howrah to Tata Nagar and then travel three-and-a-half hours in a cab (no AC th