About this episode

Rooshy Roy discusses her journey and the acquisition of her beauty brand AAVRANI.

AAVRANI has been acquired — and founder Rooshy Roy shares the full story for the first time on South Asian Trailblazers. Six years ago, in Season 1 (2020), Rooshy first sat down with Simi as a freshly-funded, newly-married Forbes 30 Under 30 founder building one of the first beauty brands rooted in Indian heritage. Today, she becomes the first trailblazer to ever return to the podcast — here to share the end of her nine-year journey bringing Indian Ayurveda-inspired beauty to the world. In ...

People in this episode

Host: Simi Shah

Guest: Rooshy Roy

Topics covered

• beauty brand acquisition
• entrepreneurship
• Indian heritage
• Ayurveda
• personal journey

Keywords

• AAVRANI
• Rooshy Roy
• beauty brand
• acquisition
• Ayurveda
• entrepreneurship
• Forbes 30 Under 30

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AAVRANI, Forbes

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