After three failed startups this millenial CA started his own firm Daftery & Associates and eventually found success

• Hi! I am Anuj Daftery, a Practising Chartered Accountant and founder of Daftery & Associates, a Mumbai-based firm.
• After qualifying as a CA, I joined a Big 4 Accounting firm and simultaneously started an e-commerce portal called DafLabs.
• In a short span of 14 months, I realized the Big 4s are not for me and I quit to begin a startup venture.
• Unfortunately, my startup did not work out and after three failed attempts, in 2015 I decided to start my own CA practice.
• Here’s my story of how I turned around in life despite all the failures and started my practice at 23.

First-person in my family to become a Chartered Accountant

None of my family members were Chartered Accountants but my childhood and lifetime mentor is a Chartered Accountant who built his career from scratch.

So, inspired by him, I decided to pursue CA and started working as an intern immediately at my mentor’s office after clearing my class 10^th exams.

Since I always had an acute interest in business and was an avid reader since childhood (thanks to a simple 40-page reading rule per day imposed by my father!), it helped me clear the CA exams.