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Sachin Gupta:







                                                                An IIT Roorkee Grad,

                                                                Ex-Googler and Now Heads

                                                                Sales/Marketing/Operations
                                                                at Hackerearth


                                              Our Story                           own, but that shouldn’t restrict you.
                                              From outside, HackerEarth’s story   Developers teaching marketers                  “
                                              may seem as one of those much       programming and sales people
                                              talked about dorm room startups     providing design inputs is a
                                              that have shown promise and         common sight at HackerEarth.
                                              rapidly growing. While most of      Everyone here is an owner of the
                                              that is true, HackerEarth’s story   company and we are always open
                                              has been about perseverance and     to hearing people who can help us
                  ore than 500 companies      focus towards one goal - making     become better.
                                                                                  Hardships for a Start-up or an
                  across the globe use        technical recruitment simple and
        MHackerEarth to improve               efficient. And this journey has     Entrepreneur in India
        the quality of their engineering      been no walk in the park - we       Starting up in India has its own set
        hires and reduce the time spent by    have had our share of challenges    of challenges. Contrary to what we
        recruiters on screening candidates.   and we know there are more to       may want to believe, India is not
        Over the years, we have also          come in the future.                 yet a mature start-up eco-system,
        built a thriving community of         But HackerEarth’s real story is     with only a quarter of population
        2.5M+ developers that come to         that of the people who run it.      having access to internet. Yes,
        HackerEarth to participate in         From the two college friends who    internet connectivity is a big turn
        hackathons and coding challenges      willed an idea to reality, to the   down. Also, there are problems
        to assess their skills and compete in   people who put their faith into the   like lack of proper distribution
        the community.                        aim of the startup and took it as   channels, weaker marketing
        About The Founder                     their own, HackerEarth is many      channels, lesser availability of
                                              stories, of the people who make it.  venture capital money and a lack of
        Sachin, Co-founder of                 Our story is continually changing,   support in the ecosystem. However
        HackerEarth, is an IIT Roorkee        as the people at HackerEarth keep   the biggest challenge that Indian
        grad, ex-Googler and now heads        writing new ones, everyday.         entrepreneurs face is psychological.
        Sales/Marketing/Operations at         Work Culture                        We have typically been a society
        HackerEarth. Being a developer by                                         averse to taking risk.
        skill he continues to code in small   As with any growing startup,
        amount. He is deeply passionate       there is no restriction to the
        about his work and is a fitness       work that you should be doing
        freak.”                               at HackerEarth. You will have
                                              verticals that you will completely


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