Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, May 29th.

Today on Forbes, meet India's self-made biologics brewmaster billionaire.

Kieran Mazumdar Shah's booming drug business started not in a laboratory, but in a tin-roofed shed in Bangaluru,

the city formerly known as Bangalore, and the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Inside, the 25-year-old was using the knowledge she had learned studying beer brewing in Australia

to ferment enzymes for customers like ocean spray cranberry juice.

Originally, she had wanted to be like her father, who was the head brewmaster at United

Breweries, the big Indian firm now owned by Heineken and famous for its Kingfisher

Beer.

But it was 1978, and she couldn't find a job.

No one wanted to hire a woman as a brewer.

Distraught and disillusioned, Mazumdar Shah put her education to another use,

making enzymes for industrial uses.

In partnership with an Irish entrepreneur who owned a company called Biocon,

and who was looking to expand to India,

she set up shop inside that hot shed.

She says, quote, I call myself an accidental

entrepreneur. The business became successful enough that Unilever bought it in the 1980s,

along with its Irish parent. Muzumdar Shaw stayed on to run the unit from Bangaluru until

1998, when she and her late husband, John Shaw, bought

back Unilever's stake for about $2 million.

It was a steal.

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