TY - BOOK AU - Rao, Rukmini AU - Datta, Prosenjit TI - Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha SN - 9789390742646 U1 - 650.092 RAO PY - 2025/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pan Macmillan India KW - C-02:Entrepreneurship N1 - Entrepreneurship; Business Biography; Corporate Governance; Business Leadership; Family Business; Coffee Industry; Café Coffee Day; Indian Business; Corporate Finance; Start-ups; Business Strategy N2 - An investigative biography of V. G. Siddhartha, the visionary founder of Café Coffee Day, tracing his remarkable rise from a coffee planter in Karnataka to one of India's most influential entrepreneurs, and examining the financial, managerial, and strategic decisions that ultimately led to the collapse of his business empire. Through extensive research and reporting, the authors explore leadership, rapid business expansion, debt management, corporate governance, and the immense pressures faced by entrepreneurs, offering valuable lessons for business leaders, startup founders, and management professionals ER -