Vineet Bajpai is an Indian entrepreneur, author, and founder of Talentrack, an online hiring platform.[1][2][3][4][5] He is the author of nine books: Build From Scratch, The Street to the Highway, The 30 Something CEO, Harappa: Curse of the Blood River, Pralay: The Great Deluge, Kashi: Secret of the Black Temple, Mastaan: The Fallen Patriot of Delhi, 1857: The Sword of Mastaan, and Delhi: City of the Blood Gates.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
He holds an Honours degree in Economics (1997) from Hansraj College, Delhi University and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (1999) from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi.[18][19]
Career
Bajpai began his career with General Electric before starting his first company Magnon Solutions, which was majority-acquired by the Omnicom Group.[20] In March 2014, Bajpai became CEO of the TBWA Group in India until January 2016.[21] In January 2016, he launched Talentrack — a talent-engagement platform for M&E sector. [22][23][24][25][26][27]
Writing
Vineet Bajpai is a best-selling Indian author.[28] His second book, The Street to the Highway, was published by Jaico in 2011. The 30 Something CEO, was published by Jaico in 2016. His first novel, Harappa: Curse of the Blood River, was published in June 2017. Pralay: The Great Deluge was published in January 2018, followed by Kashi: Secret of the Black Temple and Mastaan: The Fallen Patriot of Delhi.[29]1857: The Sword of Mastaan, was published in February 2021.[30][31]Delhi: City of the Blood Gates was published in June 2023.[32]
Awards and recognition
Bajpai won the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award in 2011.[33] In 2012, he won the CNBC TV Mercedes Benz Young Turks Award.[34] He won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016, bestowed by Entrepreneur magazine.[35][36]
On 15 February 2019, Reliance Entertainment announced that it had acquired film, web-series, gaming, and merchandise rights to Bajpai's Harappa Trilogy.[37][38][39][40][41]
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