India, Feb. 7 -- Right from his teens, Mayank Gandhi, 37, wanted to be an entrepreneur. When he was in his final year of graduation, he started his first trading business. While his ventures did not scale well, he decided to move on and then focused on achieving financial independence by completing his education.

Says he, "Those businesses could not scale the way I wanted to." Meanwhile, he completed his Chartered Accountancy (CA) while parallely pursuing his bachelor's degree along with Company Secretary (CS) and ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). Post which he worked at different consulting firms for over a decade, last being PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he was leading the mergers and acquisitions team. However, th...