Top American Indian women entrepreneurs in USA!
Well,
hello friends and we are back again with yet another interesting article and
today we are going to talk about entrepreneurs and to be specific women
entrepreneurs.
ENTREPRENEURS;
is the new next thirteen letter word that is taking the world by storm.
Entrepreneurs are people who sets up a business, taking on financial risks in
the hope of profit. Well, in short it is nothing but another word for
Businessman or woman. And the current era seems to the entrepreneurial time
where people right from the young to the old are taking up new challenges and
starting their own start-ups thus becoming entrepreneurs.
And
today we are going to look at some of the top American Indian women
entrepreneurs in USA, but before that let’s have a quick look at who can count
as an American Indian.
American
Indians are people or citizens of the United States with ancestry from India,
although the United States Census Bureau prefers to use the term Asian Indian
instead of American Indian in order to avoid confusion with the Native
Americans who are known as the Red Indians.
“I
want every little girl who’s been told she’s bossy to be told again she has
leadership skills.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook
And here we present you the Top 5 American Indian women entrepreneurs
in USA, but also are listed on the Forbes 2021 list of America’s richest
self-made women.
Fortune loves
the brave and the brave. This principle is true of the five Indian American
business women who make it to the Forbes 2021 list among the richest American
women who make their own. The wealth of the wealthy USA women they have
created, including five businessmen from India, has risen to $ 118 billion by
31%. The 26 richest women living in the US have become billionaires, including
two American Indians.
1. Jayshree
Ullal, Net Worth: $1.43 billion
The
president and CEO of Arista Networks, Jayshree Ullal is the top most name when
it comes to richest and most successful Indian origin woman in business in
America today.
Ullal
has the distinction of being the only Indian origin woman in the US to make it
to the Forbes Billionaire Club. Ullal’s story is especially significant because
her chart to success is totally self-made.
Ullal’s
success story, Arista Networks is a computer networking firm headquartered in
Santa Clara. Ullal was appointed the CEO of Arista Networks in 2008. Before
that she had worked in Cisco for 15 years.
Ullal
was also featured on Forbes 2018 list of billionaires for her net worth $1.43
billion.
The
London born and Delhi raised girl, Ullal came to the US at the age of 16 as a
student. She graduated in electrical engineering from San Francisco State
University and did her master’s in engineering management from Santa Clara
University.
Ullal
got a big break in her career when Cisco Systems acquired Crescendo
Communications and she was made senior vice president of Data Centre &
Switching.
Ullal
was also the first woman to receive the Entrepreneurial and Leadership award in
Silicon Valley in 1999. Ullal owns about 5% of Arista’s stock. She lives in
Saratoga, California.
2. Neerja
Sethi, Net Worth: $ 1 billion
Next
on the big list is Neerja Sethi. The success story of Seth began when she
merged an IT consulting company with an outsourced company Syntel with her
husband Bharat Desai back in 1980.
What
started out as a small couple's apartment in Troy, Michigan, has turned into a
global success story. In 2018 the French IT company Atos SE bought Syntel for $
3.4 billion. Seth received an estimated $ 510 million for his stake.
Sethi,
who has been a senior executive at Syntel since 1980, did not join Atos after
his acquisition. Sethi and her husband work for IT company Tata Consulting
Services and met at work. Together they tried to build a similar model. They
started their career by investing only $ 2,000 in their pockets.
3. Neha
Narkhede, Total price: $ 600 million
Neha
Narkhede is the founder and chief technology officer of Confluent, a $ 4.5
billion data distribution company.
Narkhede's
first job was at Oracle, where he worked as a chief software engineer. She then
joined LinkedIn as a radio infrastructure leader. In 2011, Narkhede and his
colleagues Jun Rao and Jay Kreps built the Platform Apache Kafka. In 2014 she
founded Confluent, a start-up based in Palo Alto.
She
is also the co-author of the book "Kafka: The Definitive Guide."
She
and his team at Confluent raised $ 125 million by 2019, bringing their funding
to $ 206 million by 2019.And in April 2020, the company raised $ 250 million
bringing its total funding to $ 456 million. Pune-born Pune studied at the
University of Pune where he obtained his BSc degree in engineering. He did his
MSc in technology at Georgia Tech.
4. Dr.
Reshma Shetty, Total Price : $ 750 million
Dr.
Reshma Shetty, who has a net worth of $ 750 million, is the founder of Gingko
Bioworks, a biotechnology company in the Greater Boston Area. She began her
journey as a graduate research assistant at MIT and went on to collaborate with
Gingko Bioworks and MIT scientists under the direction of Tom Knight, a former
research scientist at the MIT School of Engineering. Gingko Bioworks focuses on
using genetic engineering to produce viruses that work in industries and create
new living things. Dr. Reshma Shetty believes that the answers to the various
challenges of health, diet, energy and love are hidden in the depths of
biodiversity. The value of Gingko Bioworks stands at $ 4.2 billion, up from
2019.
5. Indra
Nooyi, Total Price : $ 290 million
For
a total of $ 290 million, Indra Nooyi does not need an introduction. Although she
retired as the CEO of PepsiCo in 2018, she is still a strong advocate. She has
appeared on the Time Magazine and Forbes list of the world's most powerful
women in business. A native of India, she has worked hard since the days when she
worked in a cemetery as a recipient of a dorm for a living. “When you have a
talent that no one else has, you become more valuable” is her message to all
emerging professionals. In 2021, she was admitted to the National Women's Hall
of Fame in New York. Her achievements include Honorary Doctorate of Humane
Letters and Honorary Doctorate of Law from several prestigious American
universities.
And
so here we have the Top 5 American Indian women entrepreneurs in the USA who
have managed to create a name for themselves and make our nation proud. And
these women show us that how far we have come in our fight for the women
independence and education, and this truly marks as a celebratory moment for all
the hardworking women out there who are trying hard to make a name for
themselves as well as for their nation.
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman,
but the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda
Gates, Cofounder and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Indian-origin Business Women on Forbes List of USA’s Richest Self-made Women
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