the entrepreneurial world in india is filled with multitudes of people experimenting with new avenues revamping the ones we already know and much more however very few entrepreneurs have aced the knack of dipping their toe in multiple ventures and sticking to the ones that click jimmy mistry is one of them the 49yearold entrepreneur knew his path was different from the rest since the beginning mistry started his stint with businesses and entrepreneurship back in 1991 more than two and a half decades later his ventures have been showered with love and appreciation across borders from his experimentation with design and architecture to the beginning of one of indias most prestigious luxurious and funfilled adventure resorts with della adventure resorts jimmy mistry has come a long way he sat down with our team and walked us through his long and fulfilling journey in the entrepreneurial world so heres the story of how jimmy mistry who started a pest control business in 1991 grew on to become the owner of a multimillion rupee venture as captured on della groups official website congratulationsyou have successfully cast your votelogin to view result 1991 began his entrepreneurial journey with a pest control company in mumbai 1993 took up his first civil repair contracting project with the design center 1996 a selftaught design and architecture enthusiast he set up his showroom that was the 1st in india to display italian furniture he further went on to be the sole selling distributor for 27 italian brands 1997 with furniture coming under the negative list of imports he had to get into manufacturing and setup his first furniture manufacturing factory in daman that is operational to date 2000 started taking up turnkey interior and architectural services for leading corporate in india with his venture running successfully he designed headquarters for some of the largest brands and took on architecture master planning projects panindia since then he has been a design thought leader2003 he won the urban heritage award by the indian heritage society for the rustom framnaagiary in dadar 2008 got into developing a second home gated community by setting up della villas a 24villa pilot project in lonavala maharashtra 2009 pioneered in setting up indias first extreme adventure park in lonavala with more than 70 activities 2010ventured into hospitality with the launch of camp della resort della group has set up 6 resorts with 271 rooms within the same property 2017 set up data resort indias first counterterrorism training academy for civilians and luxury militarythemed resort next to shirota dam also dedicated a restaurant to field marshal sam manekshaw around 2003 mr mistry also ventured into realestate with a luxury residential 21storey tower talking about this he said i worked passionately on creating a landmark structure to enthuse the nextgen zoroastrians and make them feel proud of their legacy after great efforts and research we finally designed and built della tower a vertical rendition of the palace of persepolis the