Meet the couple that built Rs. 3 cr eco-friendly venture YellowBag after quitting their jobs
Krishnan Subramanian and Gowri Gopinath quit their jobs to return to Madurai and start an eco-friendly venture. YellowBag clocked a turn over of Rs. 3 crore before the pandemic. Gowri Gopinath and Krishnan Subramanian had always wished to return to their homeland of Madurai and live a modest lifestyle while working in corporate professions in Bengaluru and Chennai. With their drive to promote eco-friendly cloth bags as an alternative to single-use plastics in 2014, their ambition of returning to their roots began to take shape. We thought about it and realised that we needed to move away from plastics and toward something more environmentally friendly and long-lasting "Krishnan remarked. The pair began by raising awareness among their friends and family about the importance of switching to cloth bags. YellowBag was founded in 2014 due to the needed of boosting production, after the couple started receiving more order requests. After eight years, the proj...