Nayana Vaidya went from earning a salary of ₹5,000 per month to owning a ₹48 crore business. The owner of Om Sai Surgicals opened up about her extraordinary journey in a recent podcast appearance.
“March 2026 turnover was around ₹48 crore,” Vaidya revealed of her healthcare distribution company on the Crore Club podcast. “I do not feel great or anything, because still there’s a journey. Happiness is there in working, not in money” she added.
Even if she does not set much store by money, Nayana Vaidya’s journey from a salaried employee to a successful business owner is nothing short of impressive. Here’s how she did it.
From ₹5000 to ₹48 crore
In 1997, Vaidya was working as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. “In the pharma company, my monthly salary was around ₹5,000. This was in the year 1997,” she recalled on the podcast.
Her husband was associated with Johnson & Johnson at the time, working in the field of oncology. “Johnson & Johnson offered him a dealership. And I had the required licenses and qualifications,” said Vaidya, who had studied pharmacy before marriage. “So that’s how we combined and got the dealership.”
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That one dealership would become the start of bigger and better things for Vaidya and her husband. After a couple of years, Vaidya’s husband started his own business, while she took over the dealership.
Today, Om Sai Surgicals works in the healthcare distribution space, primarily focusing on oncology and surgical products. “Over the years, we have become a trusted channel partner for so many multinational companies,” said Vaidya. “We focus on delivering the best healthcare services to hospitals.”
In the financial year 2026, the company did a turnover of ₹48 crore.
Nayana Vaidya’s net worth
Asked to reveal her net worth, Vaidya demurred. “Whatever I have earned, I am able to live a very comfortable life and give very good education to my children,” she said instead.
She did, however, reveal that she made her first crore around the year 2010. She started her business in 2000, so the first crore was made a decade after the launch.
Today, she also gets rental income from properties that she owns. In the year 2019, she took a home loan to buy a house, which is today valued at ₹4 crore.
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