• Comment: The first Inc42 reference is possible, but the second falls under WP:NEWSORGINDIA as does the Forbes India content. Being known as a 30 under 30 member is not the same as a Fellow or the like. Still needs to show significant coverage in reliable sources. CNMall41 (talk) 00:14, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Paras Chopra
NationalityIndian
Alma materDelhi College of Engineering
Occupation(s)Founder & CEO, Nintee
Known forCo-founding Wingify[1]
SpouseAakanksha Gaur
Parent
  • Anil Chopra (father)
Websiteparaschopra.com

Paras Chopra is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Wingify, a website testing platform. He currently serves as the CEO of Nintee. He has been listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 India and Asia in 2016.[2]

Early Life edit

Chopra was born on 3rd of June to a Hindu family. Paras was an avid reader from childhood and was considered good at academics. After his schooling, he opted for a biotech degree and won a gold medal.[3]

Career edit

Chopra started his professional journey right after graduating from Delhi College of Engineering. He joined Aspiring Minds, a global assessment company that helps organizations identify and hire talent. He worked as an R&D Engineer, where he worked on machine learning models and used artificial intelligence to design employability tests to accurately assess candidates at scale.[3]

Chopra quit his job after working for over a year to start his venture Wingify in 2010. His initial goal was to make INR 50K in his first month (or $1,000). It was his way to prove to himself that he was not a failure.[4]

Wingify edit

Chopra bootstrapped Wingify with his friend Sparsh Gupta (currently serving as CTO of Wingify). Gupta held a masters degree from Oxford and had previously worked in London. He handled the tech developments at Wingify, while Chopra focused on growth, sales and marketing, and future development.[3] Wingify is a B2B Software as a service company whose core feature is its software A/B testing tool "Visual Website Optimizer" (shortly known as VWO). VWO allows live testing of a website with different variables. This enables organizations to test different versions of a site and check which one performs better.

Wingify bagged global clients such as Microsoft, General Electric, Groupon, Airbnb, The Walt Disney Company, Advanced Micro Devices, and Hotels.com.[3] The company clocked $18 million in revenues in 2018. Paras stepped down as the CEO of Wingify in 2018.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Ajwani, Deepak (13 January 2016). "Paras Chopra: Making Websites Fly". Forbes.
  2. ^ "Paras Chopra - 2016-08-16 - 2016 30 Under 30 Asia: Enterprise Tech". Forbes. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d "Paras Chopra: Making Websites Fly". Forbes India. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  4. ^ Modgil, Shweta (9 October 2017). "The Wingify Story: How Paras Chopra Outgrew His Humble Ambition Of Earning $1,000 A Month To Build A $18 Mn SaaS Startup". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ^ Inc42, Team (12 March 2018). "Paras Chopra Of Wingify On Stepping Down As The CEO, His New Blog Inverted Passion, His Learnings As A SaaS Entrepreneur & More". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 10 November 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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