Uday Tangella quit Dubai to build Rs 35 crore tea chain from Rs 5 lac
In 2016, Uday Srinivas Tangella opened the first Tea Time location. There are already about 3,000 outlets in the country. Uday Srinivas Tangella must have had a lot of guts and confidence to leave a high-paying job in Dubai and return to India to do business, and then open a simple tea shop, of all things. Uday Tangella most recently worked in Dubai, where he drove a Jaguar and lived in luxury. So, when he quit that job at the age of 29 and returned to India, his family was not amused. "They thought I had made a mistake in my profession," says Uday, creator of Tea Time, one of the country's fastest growing tea shops. Back in India, Uday launched his first store in Rajahmundry, a tiny city in Andhra Pradesh, in 2016 with a Rs 5 lakh investment in a 150-square-foot area. Six years later, he has not only thrived as an entrepreneur, but has also generated nearly 3,000 small business owners by expanding his tea chain through a franchising model. "Wi...