Biography:Paras Chopra
Paras Chopra | |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Delhi College of Engineering |
| Occupation | Founder & CEO, Nintee |
| Known for | Co-founding Wingify[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Aakanksha Gaur |
| Parent(s) |
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| Website | paraschopra.com |
Paras Chopra is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Wingify, a website testing platform. He currently serves as the CEO of Nintee. He has been listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 India and Asia in 2016.[2]
Early Life
Chopra was born on 3rd of June to a Hindu family. Paras was an avid reader from childhood and was considered good at academics. After his schooling, he opted for a biotech degree and won a gold medal.[3] He published multiple papers as a biotech undergraduate student.[4]
During his engineering college days, he tried his hands on a number of startups in diverse areas. This included a music startup Kroomsa, that helped Indian bands promote their music on the web.[5] He realized that lack of marketing was the primary reason of his early venture failures.
Career
Chopra started his professional journey right after graduating from Delhi College of Engineering. He joined Aspiring Minds, a global assessment company that helps organizations identify and hire talent. He worked as an R&D Engineer, where he worked on machine learning models and used artificial intelligence to design employability tests to accurately assess candidates at scale.[3]
Chopra quit his job after working for over a year to start his venture Wingify in 2010. His initial goal was to make INR 50K in his first month (or $1,000). It was his way to prove to himself that he was not a failure.[6]
Wingify
Chopra bootstrapped Wingify with his friend Sparsh Gupta (currently serving as CTO of Wingify). Gupta held a masters degree from Oxford and had previously worked in London. He handled the tech developments at Wingify, while Chopra focused on growth, sales and marketing, and future development.[3] Wingify is a B2B Software as a service company whose core feature is its software A/B testing tool "Visual Website Optimizer" (shortly known as VWO). VWO allows live testing of a website with different variables. This enables organizations to test different versions of a site and check which one performs better.
Wingify bagged global clients such as Microsoft, General Electric, Groupon, Airbnb, The Walt Disney Company, Advanced Micro Devices, and Hotels.com.[3] The company clocked $18 million in revenues in 2018. Paras stepped down as the CEO of Wingify in 2018.[7]
Nintee
After stepping down from Wingify as CEO. Paras started working on his new health-tech venture Nintee. It is a venture-backed B2C startup that provides personal growth coach to its users. that uses AI for habit coaching and helps with consistency in life goals.[8]
Philanthropy
Paras along with his wife Aakanksha Gaur, run a monthly program "Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grant" to support young Indians. The grant provides monetary support of 50,000 INR to anyone of age under 25 to help them start a company, fund a project, buy instruments, conduct experiments, or create art. The grant is offered every month to a boy and a girl, providing grants to 24 young achievers annually.[9]
References
- ↑ Ajwani, Deepak (13 January 2016). "Paras Chopra: Making Websites Fly". Forbes. https://www.forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/paras-chopra-making-websites-fly/37201/1.
- ↑ "Paras Chopra - 2016-08-16 - 2016 30 Under 30 Asia: Enterprise Tech" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/pictures/efjl45ggme/paras-chopra/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Paras Chopra: Making Websites Fly" (in en). https://www.forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/paras-chopra-making-websites-fly/37201/1.
- ↑ Chopra, Paras (2006). "Engineering Life through Synthetic Biology". IOS Press (6): 401–410. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.530.9700.
- ↑ Media, Inc42 (2017-12-01). "The Wingify Story: How Paras Chopra Outgrew His Humble Ambition Of Earning $1,000 A Month To Build…" (in en). https://medium.com/@inc42/the-wingify-story-how-paras-chopra-outgrew-his-humble-ambition-of-earning-1-000-a-month-to-build-4328938c6b57.
- ↑ Modgil, Shweta (2017-10-09). "The Wingify Story: How Paras Chopra Outgrew His Humble Ambition Of Earning $1,000 A Month To Build A $18 Mn SaaS Startup" (in en). https://inc42.com/startups/wingify-paras-chopra-saas-startup/.
- ↑ Inc42, Team (2018-03-12). "Paras Chopra Of Wingify On Stepping Down As The CEO, His New Blog Inverted Passion, His Learnings As A SaaS Entrepreneur & More" (in en). https://inc42.com/features/paras-chopra-wingify-saas-entrepreneur-ama/.
- ↑ "Nintee Overviews". https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/527207-41#overview.
- ↑ Chopra, Paras. "Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grant". https://invertedpassion.com/escape-velocity-grant/.
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