Five successful CEOs in India who are not even graduates

Ritesh Agarwal, the Founder and CEO of OYO Rooms & Homes, is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country.

He dropped out of college at the age of 17 and decided to follow his dreams.

In 2012, Agarwal founded Oravel Stays Private Limited, the Gurugram-based parent company of OYO Hotels & Homes, a technology-enabled hotel chain, when he was just 18.

Kailash Katkar is the Founder and CEO of Quick Heal Technologies, one of the leading virus protection/computer security solutions providers.

Katkar, who doesn't even have any formal education, started off with a job at a small repair shop opened a one-room electrical device repair station -CAT Computer Services- in 1991.

In 1993, he founded Quick Heal Technologies in Pune along with his brother.

Azhar Iqubal, the Co-Founder and CEO of Inshorts, is also a successful entrepreneur who doesn't have a graduation degree.

He was in the final-year of his graduation at IIT-Delhi when he dropped out and went on to start Inshorts, the pioneer of short-form news content in the country.

He founded the company along with two of his friends, also dropouts from IIT-Delhi, in 2013.

Ankit Oberoi is the co-founder and CEO of AdPushup, a revenue optimization platform for publishers and bloggers that helps in increasing their ad revenue.

He is also not a college graduate. He dropped out of Maharaja Agrasen College of the Delhi University in the first semester itself as he believed one doesn't need to be at college to learn something in this Internet era.