Six years ago when Damini Pahwa started Appsoleut Coders, there was a sense of skepticism. Women didn't really run the show when it came to apps and more so games. It has been perceived as a male-dominated domain but six years and 150 million downloads later, Pahwa and Appsoleut are here to stay. "Gaming has always been an integral part of my growing up. I always chose games over my studies…which was such a struggle for my parents. But they are proud today," says Pahwa, co-founder and CEO Appsoleut Coders. Pahwa is not alone. Giving her company in the app and game development sphere are Abhinaya Chandrasekhar and Raskha Rao who head The Unscripted Life and Parjanya Creative Solutions respectively. Chandrashekhar was working as a strategic brand director at a global advertising company when she decided that she wanted to "jump into the uncertain vortex of chaos, or entrepreneurship about four years ago." She worked her way up by taking up projects that helped her learn about new product development, design, tech and going beyond her domain knowledge. Pahwa has been a hardcore gamer all her life, so it was an industry where she wanted to make it big, so… Read full this story
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