‘Making It Big’: Nepali billionaire Binod Chaudhary’s memoir is an endearing tribute to his life
At every step of the way, Chaudhary tells readers that his sole priority as a businessman is to take Nepal forward.
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“You learn by doing a job, not by watching it being done,” Binod Chaudhary’s father would often say. “Supervision is not about being the ‘big boss’. If you lend a hand, you get better results because you’re not only showing your workers that you value what they do, but also that nobody can get away with not working when you’re part of the team.”
Looking at his son’s trajectory, laid out in immense and candid detail in his memoir, Making It Big, of how a brand made a billionaire, his father would have been proud of how deeply young Binod took his wisdom to heart. The man who took Wai Wai Noodles to the world, Chaudhary, who entered the Forbes billionaires’ list in 2013, is a fitness enthusiast, avid trekker, writer and filmmaker, with 122 companies in five countries and 76 brands in the global market.
The memoir is an immensely readable account of a wide-ranging life. It begins with an earthquake in Chile in 2010 and ends with a devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015. Sandwiched between these two natural calamities is his personal story, engagingly written by him in Nepali and translated into English and several other languages.
A long legacy
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