The big idea: Scaling up online skilling

“There was no eureka moment,” Ronnie Screwvala, media mogul and co-founder of upGrad says, as he recalls the starting days of upGrad. The idea of launching an online higher education platform that focuses on upskilling was a result of his non-profit work in the education sector since the 1990s. “Especially for me, in my second innings, it was to validate what I could do for the next 20 years,” he says.