Sumit Jain

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Sumit Jain
Born13 June 1984
NationalityIndian
Education Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Occupation(s)Partner Unacademy. Co-founder and CEO Graphy.com
Known for Commonfloor.com
Website https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumjain

Sumit Kumar 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]

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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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References

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  2. ↑ "Sumit Jain Built an Incredible Business From Scratch".
  3. ↑ Reporter, B. S. (8 January 2016). "Quikr buys CommonFloor in $200-mn all-stock deal". Business Standard India. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  4. ↑ Ganguly, Payal (16 January 2017). "CommonFloor founders quit a year after Quikr acquisition". The Economic Times. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Toms, Manu (29 March 2018). "Commonfloor cofounder Sumit Jain launches voice-based social app". The Economic Times. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Unacademy elevates Sumit Jain to cofounder status".
  7. ↑ "His business education started at age 8...here's CommonFloor CEO's unusual story".
  8. ↑ "Unacademy introduces new product 'Graphy' with a separate founding team". 10 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Fortune India's 40-under-40 : Groupon, Jombay, Zivame Flipkart, InMobi".
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