Puneet Gupta is the founder and CEO of Astrotalk, an astrological forecasting app. He is also a TEDx speaker.
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Wiki/Biography
Puneet Gupta was born in Punjab, India. He celebrates his birthday on 10 May. His zodiac sign is Taurus. In 2005, he completed his primary education from St. Xavier’s High School, Bathinda. He completed his higher secondary education from SSD Sen Secondary in non-medical stream. Public School, Bathinda in 2007. In 2011, he completed his graduation in Technology and Engineering from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.
Puneet Gupta’s childhood picture
Puneet Gupta in 2013
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Weight (Approx): 70 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
In one of his TED talks, he revealed that he hails from a lower-middle-class Punjabi family and his grandfather was an Ayurveda doctor and was very famous in his home town.
I belong to a lower-middle-class family and completed my B.Tech degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 2011. We had a joint family. I gave my notice and left Mumbai in November 2013. I moved to my hometown (Bathinda, Punjab, India) to start something in Ayurveda with my grandfather as he practiced medicine and had cured many patients of appendicitis, hepatitis, stones, piles. , etc.”
parents and siblings
Puneet Gupta’s father is a shopkeeper. He has a wholesale shop of bedsheets from Ganpati Handloom in Bathinda. His mother Prabha Rani works in Punjab and Sindh Bank. He has a brother named Kamal Gupta, who helps his father in business.
Puneet Gupta’s father, mother, Prabha Rani and brother, Kamal Gupta.
wife and children
On 3 July 2021, he married Deepika Tomar.
Puneet Gupta with his wife Deepika Tomar on his wedding day
Puneet Gupta with his wife Deepika Tomar
Religion
He follows Hindu religion.
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livelihood
Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd.
In June 2011, through campus placement, he joined Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. Ltd. (Investment Bank of Japan) in Mumbai as an Analyst with a salary of Rs 37000. He worked there for two years, where his probation period was extended and he resigned in November 2013. Before this, he was an intern at Philips India. After completing his notice period at Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. Ltd., he left Mumbai and moved to his hometown, Bathinda, Punjab. Over the next six months, his savings were gone and he went bankrupt. At the same time, he applied to Flipkart but they rejected him because he was not from IIT.
Puneet Gupta works at Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. Limited in Mumbai
career break
In November 2013, he returned to Bathinda and took a seven-month break from his career.
A startup project based in Mumbai
In May 2014, a Mumbai-based startup company approached Punit Gupta to do a one-month project with him. He came back to Mumbai with Rs 17000, of which he spent Rs 11000 on his flight to Mumbai. In one of his TED talks, he revealed that to survive on Rs 6000 a month in Mumbai, he ate cheap food with laborers and even slept on the floor and said,
Eventually, a startup called me to complete a project in a month and their budget was half my salary. I agreed and went to join them, because I thought I would get a permanent job within that month. This startup asked me to come by flight and get reimbursement after joining, but when I joined, they said it will take 15 days to approve and hence it will be credited in my salary after a month. When I left home, I had 17 thousand rupees in my account and 11 thousand rupees were spent on the flight. There was no way I could survive in Mumbai with 6 thousand. So, I decided to eat cheap food and find a cheap place to stay. All my friends had left Mumbai by that time and I had no place to share an apartment. But one of them asked me to stay at his friend’s house and when I went there I saw that there were already a lot of people in that flat and there was no extra bed. I slept on the floor in that apartment for a few days. For breakfast I drank half a cup of coffee filled with sugar so that I wouldn’t feel hungry. For lunch, I found an amazing place where workers eat, and they serve 5 puris with unlimited vegetables and salad for Rs 15. For dinner, I used to eat raw bread and have milk.
BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt Ltd
After completing that project, in June 2014, he joined BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai as a software developer. He worked there for 10 months and resigned from his post in March 2015.
CodeYeti Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
In April 2015, he became the co-founder and CEO of CodeYeti Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Ltd., Noida. In September 2017, the company removed him from his post.
Astrotalk
In October 2017, he founded Astrotalk, an astrological forecasting app. This app became the market leader in terms of revenue within 2 years. After COVID-19, the app’s revenue increased to Rs 23 lakh. In an interview, Puneet Gupta revealed the revenue of the app and his belief in astrology behind the creation of the app and said,
I founded this company after an astrologer made a very accurate prediction about me and then I thought of taking this science to the masses. After the Covid-19 crisis, our daily revenue has increased to Rs 23 lakh as people are worried about their job security, relationship status and mental conflicts are also increasing. Total mobile app installs to date are 4.1 million and our repeat customer rate is 13 per year, the highest in any industry.”
Puneet Gupta (first from left) with his Astrotalk team
In March 2017, along with MaskChat, they launched another app called Boom. Puneet Gupta also gives TED talks about his success and life lessons.
Puneet Gupta giving TED talk at Pari Chowk, Noida
car collection
- range Rover
Puneet Gupta with his Hyundai i10 and Range Rover cars
Facts/General Knowledge
- During his first job, once a senior colleague offered to assist Puneet in an astrology prediction. Puneet tried astrology despite never believing in it. He predicted that Puneet might leave his job but he also expected that his startup would close due to his partner’s departure in April 2017. He said that he should not be worried as he will start something new in 2017-18 which will be a big success. Puneet eventually announced his resignation, even though he did not think his predictions would come true. He actually had a successful startup, but as fate would have it, his partner left him in March 2017.
Before I left my job in 2015 to start an IT services company, a colleague, who was also an astrologer, foisted a prophecy on me. I didn’t ask for it and I even made fun of him but he told me how my next 4 years were going to be. He predicted that my company would do very well for 2 years but would start to decline after my partner left. And as he said, the company did very well and our team size was 45. Furthermore, my partner left me in March 2017 and the business collapsed and then the company closed down by the end of 2017. This was very much a surprise to me because I always thought that astrologers have the same favorite saying, “You don’t get as much as you try” which is true for everyone. But that co-worker has predicted some real nonsense. That’s when I thought of starting in the field of astrology and recruiting astrologers like him who can really help people. Today, we have completed 3 years in business and are valued at over US$150 million.
- In 2007, he obtained All India Rank (AIR) 2968 in IIT-JEE and AIR 2191 in AIEEE examination.
- After being spun off from CodeYeti Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Noida in 2017, he was suffering from depression as he revealed during a TED talk.
- Puneet Gupta is fond of cricket and his hobby also includes playing cricket.
Puneet Gupta playing cricket
- Puneet Gupta loves cats and also has a pet cat.
Puneet Gupta with his pet cat
- In 2009–10, Puneet Gupta was a class representative and a student council member at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.
- In 2022, AstroTalk generated revenues of over Rs 1 crore per day without raising any external capital. AstroTalk’s single-day revenue is more than the revenue generated by many Indian unicorn startups.
- On 18 November 2023, Punit Gupta promised to distribute an amount of Rs 100 crore to AstroTalk users in case of India’s victory during the India vs Australia ODI World Cup 2023 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
AstroTalk will distribute a total of Rs 100 Crore 💸💸💸 to our customers’ AstroTalk wallet if India wins the World Cup on Sunday. Equal distribution to all!
Let’s cheer for India.
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-Puneet Gupta (@iPuneetGupta) 18 November 2023
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