Sumit Jain Explained

Sumit Jain
Birth Date:13 June 1984
Education:Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Occupation:Partner Unacademy. Co-founder and CEO Graphy.com
Known For:Commonfloor.com
Nationality:Indian
Website:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumjain

Sumit Jain (born 13 June 1984) is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur.[1] He started online real-estate portal Commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for CommonFloor as well as delivering on company goals.[2] On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertising platform Quikr announced that they acquired CommonFloor.[3] After 1 year of acquisition, Sumit moved out of Quikr.[4] In July 2017, Sumit along with Co-founder Ashwani Jain launched Opentalk, a social voice app aimed to help users become better at speaking English by talking with other English speakers.[5] Sumit is now the Co-founder & CEO of Graphy.com, a platform to help the creators grow their audience, monetize their skills, and host live cohort-based courses. Sumit has been elevated to partner/co-founder at Unacademy.[6]

Early life

Born and brought up in Khatauli, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India. Sumit's father had a shop where he sold building products, in which he spent most of his time when a child, and sometimes his father left the store under his care for days, telling him not to call him for any reason.[7]

Career

Sumit graduated as a computer engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2006. After a short spell with Oracle Server Technologies, he decided to start his own business and in 2007 he started Commonfloor.com with Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani. He sold CommonFloor to Quikr in Jan 2016 and worked with Quikr for a year. He started Opentalk in 2017 along with Ashwani Jain. He Co-founded Graphy.com in 2020 along with Sushil Kumar, Shobhit Bakliwal, and Fiona Leong.[8]

Awards and recognition

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Notes and References

  1. News: 'We want to be the Google of Indian real estate: Sumit Jain' . Business Standard India . 10 January 2015 . . 10 January 2015. Punit . Itika Sharma .
  2. Web site: Sumit Jain Built an Incredible Business From Scratch.
  3. News: Quikr buys CommonFloor in $200-mn all-stock deal. Reporter. B. S.. 2016-01-08. Business Standard India. 2019-01-25.
  4. News: CommonFloor founders quit a year after Quikr acquisition. Ganguly. Payal. 2017-01-16. The Economic Times. 2019-01-25.
  5. News: Commonfloor cofounder Sumit Jain launches voice-based social app. Toms. Manu. 2018-03-29. The Economic Times. 2019-01-25.
  6. Web site: Unacademy elevates Sumit Jain to cofounder status .
  7. Web site: His business education started at age 8...here's CommonFloor CEO's unusual story .
  8. Web site: Unacademy introduces new product 'Graphy' with a separate founding team . 10 June 2020 .
  9. Web site: Fortune India's 40-under-40 : Groupon, Jombay, Zivame Flipkart, InMobi .
  10. Web site: Dataquest presents Top 25 Indian Web 2.0 Start-ups .
  11. Web site: The Brightest New Stars .
  12. Web site: LinkedIn Power Profiles 2015 In India Speak The Voice of Leadership . 17 August 2015.
  13. Web site: Sumit Jain awarded 'Young Achiever of the Year' .