Basic Information
Name | Farrhad Acidwalla |
Category | Enterpreneur |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma Mater | Bombay Scottish School, Mahim, Bombay Scottish School, Mahim, H.R. College of Commerce and Economics |
Occupation | Founder of Rockstah Media |
Net Worth | $4 Million |
Birthday | 16 November 1993 |
Birth Place | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
Age | 24 |
Spouse | No |
Father | |
Mother | Nwaz Acidwalla |
Career Journey
Company | Description |
Aviation and aeromodelling website | Started his career with creating aviation and aeromodelling website which he later sold out. When he was in the 8th grade, he borrowed $10 from his parents to buy his 1st domain name. |
Popular twitter account | Known for country’s most followed twitter account |
Rockstah Media, | A website development firm. Founded in 2009 |
CYBERNATIVE | Cyber security solutions |
Awards and Honors
Name(Year) | Awarding organisation |
Most Promising Young Indian Entrepreneurs of the year(2012) | IndiaTV(Listed at 4th position) |
Top 10 Best Dressed Male Entrepreneurs In India(2013) | Yahoo! Lifestyle & MensXP(featured at 6th position) |
10 Teenagers Who Built Million Dollar Companies(2011) | Silicon India |
25 Internet success stories aged 25 and under(2015) | VERVE’s Fresh List of GenNext achievers. |
Country’s smartest Gen Z-ers of the moment | VOGUE India |
India’s top Twitter users(2009) | MidDay |
Also featured in:-
- Farrhad Acidwalla is a 24 year old Indian entrepreneur, investor and TEDx speaker.
- CNN, CNN-IBN, LiveMint, MSN.com, Yahoo! Finance, The Economic Times and The Times of India.
- In 2014, Farrhad was the youngest guest lecturer at IIT Kharagpur’s annual entrepreneurship summit.
- He was invited to speak at several colleges and conferences. He has taught digital marketing and entrepreneurship to undergraduate students as well as post-graduate students (IITs, NITs, BITS, Amity etc.)
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