Video-first, mobile first marketplace Joynt recently announced that it has appointed serial entrepreneur Gaurav Tripathi as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.
In an official statement, the company said, “As an angel investor and mentor, Gaurav brings a wealth of knowledge and an array of experiences across various verticals. And after having spent over a decade building a team, raising funds, product development, and scaling up operations, he observed a great opportunity with Joynt.”
Commenting on Gaurav’s appointment, company founder Sagar Ramteke said, “Gaurav is a perfect leader for Joynt, with his knowledge about Scaling and Managing Startups, Bootstrapping, Innovation Management, and Team Building. Gaurav’s extensive Product Development background and Management skills should help Joynt strengthen and expand its presence amidst competition. We believe his strong leadership experience will help Joynt to attain new altitudes of success.”
“I am very excited to be joining the Joynt team,” said Gaurav Tripathi. “Having extensively worked with Artificial Intelligence and a lot of other related latest technologies, I felt I wanted to challenge myself with something distinctive. There is a tremendous opportunity to build a joyous, genuine, and sustainable platform for independent professionals and their followers to directly connect over a one-on-one video call. And as this industry evolves, I believe Joynt has a great business model and there are a lot of exciting things in store, it is an honor to lead this outstanding team.”
An IIT-Bombay alumnus, Gaurav has been an entrepreneur since his college days. In 2011, Gaurav co-founded Innoplexus, and as a CTO led the technology, product development filed 100+ patents with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications for Life Sciences.
He has experience in raising multi-million dollar venture funding rounds. He is known for building high performing teams which have been his strength in scaling Innoplexus technology and product. Gaurav is also an angel investor and a mentor to many startups.
Joynt is a new-age platform which gives independent professionals and experts a new way to make money with one-on-one video calls. In its current avatar, Joynt is giving independent professionals and experts who are interested in sharing their knowledge to do so via remote, one-on-one video calls. They can upload an intro video, state their availability for calls, how much they want to charge for their time, and go live. And with Joynt, people can ask questions from these professionals and experts or get advice or simply have a meaningful conversation with them on the one-on-one video calls.
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