
Motivational Story: There was a time when there was no admission in MBA. But he became a millionaire from the business of tea, today the whole country knows him by the name of ‘crorepati chai wala’. Know their success story.
- Born in a small village in Madhya Pradesh
- Brought to Ahmedabad the dream of doing MBA
- Asked for money by lying to father and started tea business
New Delhi. It is said that if you are determined to do something, then everything is possible. Praful Billore of Madhya Pradesh proved this to be true. Like many students, Prafulla also had a dream to study business and entrepreneurship from top IIMs. His dream could not be fulfilled. Prafulla did not give up and started the business of tea. Today he is so successful that the turnover of his business is in crores. Everyone knows him by the name of ‘crorepati chaiwala’.
- Story that started with CAT exam preparation
Prafulla Billoure, a farmer family of Labravada, a small village in Dhar, wanted to do MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. For this he went to Ahmedabad and made a lot of preparations. Even after preparing for the Common Admission Test (CAT) for three consecutive years, he could not get admission in IIM. After this, he also moved to big cities like Mumbai to earn money, but there he did not succeed, then he came back to Ahmedabad and got a job in McDonald’s. Here he used to get 37 rupees per hour. Here he used to work for about 12 hours a day.
- started tea business
After a time, Prafulla realized that he was not made to work anywhere. So he made a plan to start his own business. Prafulla did not have money to start the business, so he thought of starting a low investment business. Prafulla lied to his father and asked for 10 thousand rupees in the name of studies. After this he started setting up tea stalls outside a college.
- started like this
Initially, people did not come to Praful’s shop to drink tea. That’s why he himself started going to the people with tea plates and started selling them tea in English. Slowly people started liking the English speaking tea seller and crowd started gathering at his stall. Prafulla says that he named his tea stall ‘Mr Billore Ahmedabad Chai Wala’. Which he calls ‘MBA Chai Wala‘ in short. In this way Prafulla’s work started in the name of MBA Chai Wala.
- faced many difficulties
Prafulla’s tea business had started running but after a few days he had to remove his stall from there. He did not give up and started tea work again by taking a small shop on rent. Today they are successful because of their hard work. Today MBA Chaiwala has more than 22 outlets across the country and now an international outlet is going to open soon.
- Goes to give lectures in top institutes of the country
There was a time when Prafulla wanted to go to IIM to pursue MBA. At the same time, today Prafulla goes to give lectures as a management guru in institutions across the country. The mantra of Praful’s life is that ‘no work is small, big and money can be earned from everything, just you should know how to earn’. Apart from this, Praful Bilore is also quite famous on social media. He has more than 5.5 lakh followers on Instagram.