Her mother helped, too in the early years, when Mazumdar-Shaw was going to coastal towns securing fish maw supplies, in Delhi, her mother Yamini Mazumdar, would head to the fish market near the Jama Masjid once every ten days and buy a few hundred kilos of the fish maws, then ship the stock to her daughter in Bangalore. Mazumdar-Shaw`s father Rasendra Mazumdar was India`s first brewmaster and that definitely helped shape her initial interests in brewing.
Initially setting out to be a professional brewmaster, Mazumdar-Shaw faced so much hostility and gender bias that she turned to Plan B: to start a biotech start-up instead, where she could leverage her fermentation knowledge to produce enzymes and biopharmaceuticals instead of A woman who was not an engineer and who did not come from a business family, yet started and steadily grew a ground-breaking business. So, who is Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw? Myth-breaker.
Actually, it leans more towards tracking of the business rather than delving too deeply into the personality traits of its founder but then, the best business biographies do just that. In Mythbreaker, author Seema Singh brings alive Mazumdar-Shaw's three-decade journey through a motley cast of characters - scientists, ministries, pharma rivals, FMCG giants - who came together to produce a narrative that is remarkable for its randomness, luck and relentless pursuit of the next scientific breakthrough.This well-written biography with its catchy title, gives readers a cogent answer to the question, who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, as well as its corollary, what is Biocon all about. To some extent, she has also plugged the brain drain of Indian scientists, making them collaborators in the fight against diabetes and cancer, and creating a space for research in India. Without a supportive academic ecosystem for biotechnology and in the absence of sound policymaking, Mazumdar-Shaw has tirelessly sought out global alliances and resources in her quest for ideas and molecules. And the accidental entrepreneur, Mazumdar-Shaw, is today a tough negotiator and a habitual dealmaker, casually breaking several myths about Indian women in business. Thirty-seven years on, Biocon is India's largest research-driven biotech enterprise. Armed with just a degree in beer making, this move to industrial enzymes and commodity small molecules was as audacious as it was far-sighted.
At the age of twenty-five, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw partnered with an Irish entrepreneur, Leslie Auchincloss, to start Biocon India in a garage in Bengaluru. Item: 165927072303 Mythbreaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and the Story of Indian Biotech by Seema Singh.
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