LEADING LADY
Her office in Okhla, New Delhi, like the lady herself, is matter of fact. No grand art or statement furniture, just a basic, no-frills, functional space. When its owner, Falguni Nayar, walks in, on a nippy November morning, she is in a breezy floral sari, by no particular famous designer, wearing sensible block heels, toting a purse and a jute bag with her lunch.
It has only been days since Nykaa’s stunning IPO (launched on October 28, and oversubscribed 80 times), and the 58-year-old Nayar has been a judged India’s richest self-made woman billionaire (with her company valued at $14 billion, or Rs 1.05 lakh crore, as of November 10, more than the likes of Coal India, Hindalco and Godrej) in the Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, wresting the crown from Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. She wears the laurel lightly, because, for her, this is not end of a journey but just its beginning.
Nayar’s story, thanks to FSN E-Commerce Venture’s (Nykaa’s parent
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