What does it take to build—and sell—a thriving business born from resilience and clarity of purpose? Few stories capture it as powerfully as Shirin Behzadi’s. At 17, Shirin fled Iran alone during the revolution, arriving in the U.S. with little money and no family. She started as a gas station cashier—and eventually rose to become CEO of Home Franchise Concepts, the parent company behind Budget Blinds and several other national home-service brands. Under her leadership, the company more than ...
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What does it take to build—and sell—a thriving business born from resilience and clarity of purpose? Few stories capture it as powerfully as Shirin Behzadi’s. At 17, Shirin fled Iran alone during the revolution, arriving in the U.S. with little money and no family. She started as a gas station cashier—and eventually rose to become CEO of Home Franchise Concepts, the parent company behind Budget Blinds and several other national home-service brands. Under her leadership, the company more than ...
Scaling from Within: Tushar Amin on Building a $2B Business Inside IBM
Strategy at Scale
44 minutes
5 months ago
Scaling from Within: Tushar Amin on Building a $2B Business Inside IBM
What does it take to build a $2 billion business—not from scratch, but from inside a legacy corporate giant? Tushar Amin has the answer. A seasoned strategy executive, Tushar led a transformative initiative within one of IBM’s most traditional business units—a flat-growth, high-margin division many saw as a cash cow. Where others saw constraints, he saw opportunity. By reframing IBM’s aging global infrastructure as a strategic asset, he helped create a fast-growing, globally competitive servi...
Strategy at Scale
What does it take to build—and sell—a thriving business born from resilience and clarity of purpose? Few stories capture it as powerfully as Shirin Behzadi’s. At 17, Shirin fled Iran alone during the revolution, arriving in the U.S. with little money and no family. She started as a gas station cashier—and eventually rose to become CEO of Home Franchise Concepts, the parent company behind Budget Blinds and several other national home-service brands. Under her leadership, the company more than ...
