Current

• US East Coast
• Married to Hiral Bhatt Gupta.
• Best friends with Barney (Shih-tzu)

Childhood

• Born & grew up in small village in India.
• Moved to Gurgaon, Haryana (now Gurugram) around 5th Grade in my grand parents house in a joint family.

Education

• Never been the brightest kid in the class.
• Finished 12th grade from Chiranjiv Bharati School, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana.

Early Web Days

• Got my first email address at age 16, I don’t have that account now.
• Was fasicnated with Microsoft Frontpage & then Macromedia Dreamweaver (Before Adobe took over Macromedia)

Post School

• Colleges didn’t entertain my applications
• Dropped out from Delhi University Distance education, B.Com. Wasn’t worth it.
• Joined Call center as Technical Support Executive. Did pretty well there!

Blogging & Web

• Started Mayankgupta.com (Around 2004)
• Came across Blogger.com & WordPress. Hated WordPress at first.
• Realized Blogger.com was limiting, gave into power of WordPress.
• Started ReviewSaurus.com, a tech blog that went from 0 to 200,000 pageviews/month.

Entrepreneurship & WordPress

• Partnered with Rajat Bhadani & Nikola Dimev to start Blog Design Studio in Skopje, Macedonia.
• After few years, both wanted to move to Mobile app development, I wanted to stick to WordPress
• Started Monks Bistro, LLC and hired Engineers from colleges that didn’t seem me worthy!

End of Entrpreneurship (or did it?)

• In 2017 I decided to move away from Monks Bistro.
• I continue to work with businesses with the zeal and learnings as an entreprenuer.
• My experience in sales, marketing, technology, team building, client management has helped me become Product/Program/Project manager.