Anand Jain’s journey from selling soaps to building CleverTap (and other top stories of the day)
This is the journey of Anand Jain, who started tinkering with various electronics items, especially computers. He started by assembling PCs and, at 14, wrote his first program - a commercial software for advocates.
How does a person not interested in academics go on to become the CEO of a SaaS-based mobile analytics and mobile marketing company based in Mountain View, California?
This is the journey of Anand Jain, who started tinkering with various electronics items, especially computers. He started by assembling PCs and, at 14, wrote his first program - a commercial software for advocates.
“During my teens, I would make things that were not just fun but also made money. It not only helped bring income home but also helped me get my first PC in 1991, when I was in Class 11,” says Anand, whose tryst with technology began when he was in his early teens.
By the second year of college in 1994, Anand and a friend started a company, Compoint Computers. He describes this time as a “phase of learning and hustle”.
Urban Ladder doubles revenues in FY19
Ashish Goel, co-founder and CEO, Urban Ladder
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Roopa Kudva
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Javed Abidi Foundation is changing the disability space
Shameer with Javed Abidi on World Disability Day 2017.
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How Ufaber found success with hyper-personalised learning
Ufaber founder, Rohit Jain
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Export promotion body demands separate policy for MSMEs
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This healthcare financing startup offers instant medical loans
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