A Billion Bets by Aviral Bhatnagar tells the story of India’s startup ecosystem through entrepreneurs, investors and companies that took outsized risks before success was certain. What does it take to build in a country before the country fully believes in itself?
About A Billion Bets
From the early internet pioneers and the birth of India’s venture ecosystem to the new generation of founders building for a digital India, venture capitalist Aviral Bhatnagar traces how a once-fragmented market became one of the world’s most dynamic engines of innovation. Written from inside the ecosystem rather than from its sidelines, the book captures the uncertainty, improvisation and conviction required to build in India across decades of transformation. Part business history, part investor insight and part memoir, A Billion Bets is ultimately about the people who believed in India before the consensus did. Penguin Business paperback: ISBN 9789377303945, 192 pages, August 2026. Penguin Random House India.
