Meet India’s Self-Made Biologics Brewmaster Billionaire

Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building an international knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the world’s most successful—and richest—female entrepreneurs.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s booming drug business started not in a laboratory but in a tin-roofed shed in Bengaluru, the city formerly known as Bangalore and the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Inside, the 25-year-old was using the…