India, July 24 -- When banks refused to fund his vision, Subhasish Chakraborty turned to an unlikely source of support. His wife, Tapasi Chakraborty, mortgaged her jewellery to help launch his startup. Today, that small venture built on door-to-door delivery has grown into DTDC, a Rs.2,000 crore logistics empire with over 16,500 partners across India.

"What do you do when every bank says no? For me, the answer came from home," Subhasish Chakraborty told Humans of Bombay. The Chairman & Managing Director at DTDC Express Limited recalled that he wanted to earn when he was still studying. However, his father wanted him to choose between education and business. That is when he left home with a promise that he would return only when he "succe...