Beyond the Case

Send us Fan Mail Born and educated in China, MiuMiu Miao's university major, computer science was assigned by the Chinese government, not chosen by her. By her second year, she realized it wasn’t her path, dropped out, and discovered her true calling through an internship in international trade. That decision set her on a journey to build Baobabtrees - a multi-million-dollar, cross-border sup...

Send us Fan Mail From powder to purpose: how one founder turned niche know-how and crisis moments into a durable company. Rafael “Rafa” Sierra, founder of EPSA Mexico , a specialist in automating powder handling for industries like food, chemicals, paint, and steel explains how EPSA launched during the 2008–10 downturn by offering alternative, budget-friendly automation options in an under-taught...

Send us Fan Mail From losing everything in a foreign country to rebuilding a global sustainability group, Filippo Ghirelli’s story is a masterclass in resilience, philosophy-driven leadership, and creative reinvention. In this conversation, the InfraCorp founder explains how his early engineering career across Africa, Turkey, and Italy shaped his worldview, and how the devastating collapse of his...

Send us Fan Mail Anik Dharamshi, Executive Director of HD Fire Protect , shares the journey of one of India’s oldest fire-protection manufacturers. Founded by his uncle in 1990, the business began by developing Indian alternatives to imported fire-safety products, later securing UL and FM global certifications and exporting to 90+ countries. The company is jointly run by first and second generatio...

Send us Fan Mail Ryan Walker is the founder of Matrix MKTG , a full-service creative and experiential marketing agency. It was born from a client opportunity he initially saw only as a short-term consulting gig. Ryan’s worldview was shaped by growing up in Dayton, Ohio, with a strong nuclear family, an entrepreneurial father and parents who deliberately showed their children life beyond their imme...

Send us Fan Mail Sameer Mohamed shares the story of taking forward his father’s entrepreneurial legacy at Jaleel Holdings and the family office MVK Holdings. His father, a born entrepreneur, started working in his early teens in Coimbatore, experimented with rice trading and eventually moved to the UAE in 1967, doing odd jobs before starting a fruit trading business in 1972.  Over time this grew i...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Isabelle Andrieu , a French linguist, co-founder of the AI-powered translation company Translated and CEO of Pi School . She moved to Italy for love and co-founded Translated with her husband Marco, leveraging her language skills and his tech background.  They bootstrapped the company over 26 years using creativity (like funding the startup with ad revenue fr...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Beyond the Case features Wilfredo Gomes , founder of OneWG , one of the largest advertising firms in southern Brazil. Born in Florianópolis in the state of Santa Catarina, Wilfredo grew up in a hardworking region shaped by European immigrants and strong local industries. He lost his father at a young age, learned the value of responsibility early, entered universit...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sohin Shah interviews Aiman Khorakiwala, CEO of InGene Organics and leader at Akbarally’s , a century-old retail institution in Mumbai. Aiman discusses her journey growing up in a business family rooted in retail and pharma, her unexpected entry into the family business, and her evolution as a leader. Aiman explains how she initially believed that a great product alone would...

Send us Fan Mail Host Sohin Shah speaks with Linnette Le, co-founder and COO of MyStudio and co-owner of InCourage Martial Arts . She shares her path from consulting to building a multi-location business and a fully bootstrapped software company. The conversation takes a deeply personal turn as Linnette describes the nine months she lived in a children’s hospital while her infant son fought leukem...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Sohin Shah speaks with David Hemmat , founder and sole shareholder of Blue Coding , a 150-person software development company based in the Dominican Republic.  He shares the story of his first failed venture funded partly by selling his father’s car and using student loans. Weak sales and operational challenges forced them to sell at a loss, teaching him earl...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sohin Shah sits down with Mathieu Roegiers, a Belgian entrepreneur who has already lived three careers: professional field hockey player, 777 captain for Etihad Airways, and now founder of Cosmos Fund . He takes us into the cockpit during a brutal flight through extreme weather, when a 26-year-old Mathieu had to fly the aircraft alone. That moment, along with year...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Case, Sohin Shah sits down with Ray & Monica Harrigill — founders of The Sunray Companies and fellow Harvard Business School OPM participants — for a conversation packed with hard-earned wisdom, mental models, and first-principles thinking. From restaurants to salons, spas, hotels, and more, the Harrigills have built and scaled a multi-business po...