Corn Man: How Pattabhi Rama Rao Built a Monopoly Nobody Saw Coming

He didn't plan to farm. He didn't plan to dominate. Pattabhi Rama Rao stumbled into popcorn because a friend's cinema was about to run dry — and somehow ended up controlling half of India's popcorn kernel market. In this episode, we go deep on the full story of Gourmet Popcornica which produces 50% of India's popcorn kernels. How he grew a crop that didn't exist in India. How he built the largest popcorn processing plant outside North America. How COVID wiped out 80% of his business overnight and he responded by doubling his farm acreage. And how one in two popcorn kernels eaten anywhere in India today comes from his fields. This is not a startup story. This is a nation-building one.

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