Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra, CEOs and Co-Founders, guruji.com, both IIT Engineers, while working with a US based firm, realised the potential of India as a career hub and came back to build the Indian counterpart of Google. Stunned? Well, they made it!
"We knew that a search engine built using scalable and robust technology would be a great product for the Indian consumer and we have been talking to a few venture capitalists who would fund our venture. Once Sequoia Capital India agreed to fund us, we immediately decided to move back to India to build this company. We quit our jobs, sold off most our belongings and were ready to build our dream here in India," they say. "The idea came to us in June 2005. We witnessed the success of search engines in the US and also noted that its success rates did not complement its growth in the market. We noticed that the local players were doing far better than them!" recollects Mishra.
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