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Interesting facts about Pranay Chulet
• Pranay Chulet is the founder and CEO of quikr . com
• He holds a degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi .
• He further studied MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta .
• In 2007 , he started his first entrepreneurial venture Excellere which was to develop web-based educational products .
• In 2008 , he founded Kijiji India which was later renamed as Quikr .
Start-ups in India have taken a huge leap , now every individual has a thought of starting his own business . Gone are the days where people used to try harder to join their dream company . Today everybody wants to be the boss themselves ; nobody wants to hear a ‘ NO ’ from their boss , instead they would rather create the work they love . There are numerous stories of people who have achieved success by establishing self employment . Here we come up with story of such dynamic person Pranay Chulet , successful entrepreneur , Co-Founder and CEO of Quikr , who influenced others to kick start their business . Quikr the firm that offers online classified advertising platforms for users to buy or sell goods and services from each other .
A Journey that led to Quikr . com !
Pranay was born in a small town of Rajasthan to a family where his father was a small time government officer working in mines as a general manager and his mother was a homemaker . Most of his early childhood days were spent in the mining towns of Dariba , Zawar and Maton in Rajasthan . He went to Kendriya Vidyalaya , where he was the first from his school — to appear for the IIT entrance examination . He got through and studied chemical engineering at IIT Delhi . Then he did his MBA from IIM Calcutta . Chulet got so far despite several odds . There was no science teacher at his school in Std X . Coaching institutes were a pipe dream . It was all down to Chulet , who studied day and night .
He began his career , soon after he completed his graduation from IIM-C in 1997 . He joined as a brand management executive at Procter & Gamble , but this stint didn ’ t go on for long and he quit it . In the same year , Pranay started working for Mitchell Madison Group as a Management Consultant . His basic job profile was to advice his clients in financial services and media industries . He worked with the group for almost 3 years , after which in 2000 , looking at the Dot Com boom in the environment , he started his first venture called – Reference Check . Interestingly , it was pretty much similar to his current venture Quikr . Reference Check was an online medium between Service Providers ( for Plumbers , Electricians , etc ) and Consumers . The company eventually got merged with another bigger incubator called Walker Digital ! He went on to work with Walker for a brief period to built and stabilize the company , before he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers ( Associate Partner ) and then Booz Allen Hamilton ( Principal ) in 2002 & 2005 , respectively . His primary roles at both the companies were more or less , advising or consulting their clients from industries like Investment Banking , Media , etc . After giving almost 5 years of his life , he even started
WINSPIRE : Empowering youth | February , 2017