From a beer maker who doesn’t fancy beer to an amateur pilot, these are lesser-known facts about some of the young leaders on the Gen.T List 2023
Every year, we nominate and celebrate our Gen.T honourees for more than just their impressive achievements, innovations and impact. The annual Gen.T List recognises talented people who inspire and possess the drive to undertake challenging journeys to become trailblazers in their fields. Those journeys often make for great stories, and in many cases, there have been some unexpected twists.
Below, several honourees share candid moments and let us in on a few curious facts about themselves or their work.
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Anushka Purohit
Anushka Purohit created a business out of turning out-of-date food items into beer. Yet, Purohit will freely admit, “I don’t like drinking beer at all!”
The co-founder of the Hong Kong-based startup Breer says her motivation is more about the social impact than any fondness for the beverage. One of Breer’s sweeter concoctions, the Pineapple Bun IPA, has tickled her fancy though, and she doesn’t mind drinking it. Purohit shares that during her experiments, she is open to the resulting brews eventually changing her mind.