It all started with several fallacious and superficial arguments laid by the writer of the post ‘Dear Smriti Irani, stop giving my money to IITians’. The post very bluntly concludes that IITs don’t contribute to the country. He supports his conclusion by providing facts such as not even a single IITian has joined Indian Army in 1986-2006, only 20 of the 9885 students joined the DRDO in 2013, and many others. However, the writer completely forgets ‘what it means to contribute to a country’. He snubs the fact that for the progress of a country, all levels of education and development are important. For instance, an IITian who does go abroad for some time, gains exposure and comes back, can do much better in terms of harnessing and creating skills for the country.
Here, we present you list of such 16 entrepreneurs who after their studies from IITs ventured into creating job for million others.
- Flipkart
Founder: Sachin Bansal: IIT-Delhi alumnus
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- Snapdeal
Founder: Rohit Bansal: an alumnus of IIT Delhi along with Kunal Bahl, a Wharton graduate
(Image Credits : forbesindia.com)
- Infosys
Founder: R. Narayana Murthy: M. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
(Image Credits : livemint.com)
- Zomato
Founder: Deepinder Goyal: IIT Delhi
(Image Credits : thehindu.com)
- Thinklabs
Founder: Gagan Goyal : student of mechanical engineering at IIT Bombay (2000-4). Gaurav Chaturvedi: his batch mate and at IIT-B
(Image Credits : economictimes.indiatimes.com)
- Travel Triangle
Founders:
Sankalp Agarwal: CO-FOUNDER & CEO, IIT KHARAGPUR
Sanchit Garg: CO FOUNDER – TRAVELTRIANGLE, IIT BOMBAY
Prabhat Gupta: CO-FOUNDER & CTO AT TRAVELTRIANGLE, IIT GUWAHATI
- Knowlarity
Founder: Ambarish Gupta and Pallav Pandey: IIT-Kanpur batchmates
- Bluegape
Founder: Ayush Varshney and co-founder Sahil Baghla: students at IIT Kanpur
(Image Credits : e27.co)
- Omkar Speciality Chemicals
Founder: Pravin S. Herlekar: IIT-Bombay
- MobiKwik
Founder: Bipin Preet Singh : Graduated from IIT Delhi in 2002
(Image Credits : telecomled.com)
- Northwest College for Advanced Learning
Founder: Mohit Jain, Maitreyi Singhvi, Tamhant Jain and Romit Choudhury: alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
(Image Credits : economictimes.indiatimes.com)
- EduSports
Founder: Saumil Majumdar: IIT-Bombay
- Chizel Prints
Founder: Yash Rane and Akash Behl: IIT Roorkee
- TownScript
Founder: Sachin Sharma: a graduate from IIT Kanpur and Sanchit Malik : a graduate from MIT-Pune
- Cocubes
Founder: Harpreet S. Grover: IIT Bombay Vibhore Goyal: IIT Bombay
(Image Credits : asishack.com)
- SlideRule
Founder: Parul Gupta: electrical engineering at IIT Bombay
