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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Sameer Hashmi meets Kiran Mazumdar Shaw who built India's largest biotechnology company and is now India's first female billionaire.

She's India's first billionaire woman entrepreneur. Biocon started in her garage 40 years ago. Today, it's India's largest biotechnology company, developing new drugs to treat diseases at an affordable cost and increasingly a powerful force in India's public health system. What's made her rise to the top in a country where women hardly get past the first rung in business?

20 minutes

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Mon 24 Sep 2018 08:10GMT

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