Creating the island's largest ecommerce company: Dulith Herath

Dulith Herath is the founder and CEO of Kapruka. Kapruka's business started with the simple idea of helping immigrants buy things for their loved ones in Sri Lanka. By establishing a rose flower farm, Dulith allows foreign Sri Lankans to send flowers to their loved ones at home. The success of the flower delivery service allowed Dulith to expand its business into what is now known as Sri Lanka's largest e-commerce organization, with more than 10,000 products and more than 30 unique types of services. Additionally, Dulith opened Java Lounge, a coffee shop franchise, which is the first coffee shop in Sri Lanka to offer Starbucks coffee. Kapruka's success was inspired by the company's innovative spirit, which set the standard for Sri Lanka's online business strategy and web-based benchmarks. Mitra has worked with Dulith on multiple projects in the past (eg Leaf, an energy monitoring tool) and hopes to maintain this partnership in the future.

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Behind Sri Lanka's Once Youngest Billionaire - Roshan Perera

I really didn't know a person called Roshan Perera existed. See? I told you Sri Lanka is not educating the youth or anyone about people who achieved success. At 22, Roshan was considered the youngest Sri Lankan billionaire entrepreneur. Roshan Perera is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur, business tycoon and venture capitalist, employing more than 5,000 Sri Lankans. At the age of 22, Roshan Perera is considered the youngest billionaire businesswoman in Sri Lanka, running a company with a turnover of more than 10 billion Sri Lankan rupees. Roshan Perera was born in 1976 and studied at St. Joseph's College in Sri Lanka. After dropping out of Harvard Business School and returning to China, he established contact with Disney, especially with the then Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner (Michael Eisner). In 1996, he persuaded Disney to visit Sri Lanka, regardless of the country's raging civil war. Here's the breakthrough the country needs: Disney is the only Fort...

The LOLC empire: Ishara Nanayakkara

Ishara Nanayakkara Son of Rajah Nanayakkara, is a business magnate and a Sri Lankan entrepreneur, and the richest man in Sri Lanka as of (2020). Ishara Nanayakkara's father is Rajah Nanayakkara, founder and CEO of Ishara Traders (Pvt) Ltd. The company is leading the way in importing and selling new and reconditioned cars. Thirty years later, the organization is still a leader in the industry. Ishara turned into financial services and started investing in financial companies like LOLC. He was also appointed to the LOLC Board of Directors in 2002. He also served as Vice President of Lanka Orix Finance from 2011 to 2018 and was appointed President of Browns Investments in 2013. In , you resigned from the board of directors of Sairam Bank in September 2018. After serving as a member of the board of directors from 2002 to 2018, he was appointed as the president of LOLC in 2018. Under his leadership, as of December 2018, the total asset value of LOLC has reached 1...

My First Blog Post

I am going to start this blog, to promote entrepreneurship for Sri Lankans to get inspiration from Sri Lankan entrepreneurs and learn from their journeys. When I look at the books on my bookshelf those are all about the great biographies of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, Mark Zuckerberg and etc. I always wondered why there aren't people like that in Sri Lanka who has changed the industries and revolutionized businesses to become successful. After a little research, I realized that the problem is not that Sri Lankan entrepreneurs don't exist, but the problem is no one has written about them. As a solution, I would like to use this opportunity to write about the life stories as a blog in my blog page, in my free time so that future Sri Lankan's can read and get to know about the great stories of Sri Lankan founders along with people who changed the world. I think it's pretty important to learn and get to know about other's journeys, I have achieved the thi...

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