Publication: The big idea: How Varun Dua’s persistence, not reinvention, led to Acko
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2025-12-22
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financialexpress.com
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In 2009, Varun Dua was restless. The global financial crisis had shaken up Tata AIG General Insurance, where he had spent five years after his MBA. Management churn followed, and so did doubt. Looking for a reset, he moved to Franklin Templeton, hoping mutual funds would be a better fit. It wasn’t. “I was bored,” he says. There was no founding ambition driving him. “I had no intention of becoming a founder,” he recalls. Born in Delhi and raised in Mumbai, Dua followed a familiar middle-class path. After a B Com from RA Podar College in 2001, he began preparing for the CA exams alongside college. Midway, he dropped out. It felt too long and too rigid. Almost on impulse, he took the MBA entrance exams and landed at MICA, specialising in marketing.
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