Anupam Mittal became a household name after he joined Shark Tank India as a judge. Mittal, who is the founder-CEO of People Group and Shaadi.com, is a multi-millionaire person today. However, there was a time when he struggled to get a job in the United States. In a recent interview, Anupam Mittal recalled the same and talked about the “terrible experiences” he had while he was trying to find a job in the IT sector.
“I sent out 800 resumes. Now the situation was such that I had no money, and if I asked them for money they say, ‘Where’s your salary?’ I had no money. It was the first time I experienced hunger,” he said on the Barbershop podcast. Mittal further recalled not eating food for two to three days and argued that it was the time when he felt “everything was finished”.
“This is something everybody should do in life once because experiencing hunger teaches you a lot. There was a time when I didn’t eat for two or three days because I couldn’t eat. How long could friends help? They would’ve helped, but you also feel bad after a while… credit cards are maxed out, everything is finished. It wasn’t like I was out on the streets, but I did experience some level of lack of resources,” he added.
The Shark Tank India judge further mentioned that it was his job with MicroStrategy that changed his life. “I had joined as a sales consultant but very quickly I rose through ranks to become the director of strategic partnerships so I had a lot of stock options and had become a multi-millionaire in my early twenties. It was crazy, I’d never imagined it. I’d ordered a sports car, we used to party in stadiums, our corporate parties would be on cruise ships. It was next level,” he shared.
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