The CEO of Astrotalk, Puneet Gupta, revealed how his new driver’s behaviour modified after overhearing a cellphone name.
Puneet Gupta is the founder and CEO of astrology companies platform Astrotalk. (LinkedIn)
The first two days went effectively. However, on the third day, the motive force rushed to open the automobile door for Gupta in an surprising gesture of deference.
The CEO of Astrotalk — an organization with a valuation of ₹2,560 crore, in keeping with Tracxn — was shocked by this act.
Astrotalk CEO shocked
“Bhai ye kya kar rhe ho? (What are you doing, brother?),” he requested the motive force. Gupta additional advised the motive force that he might have opened the automobile door himself — “ye major kar lunga, aapne 2 min waste kar diye automobile begin karne mein,” he mentioned.
The driver replied saying that opening automobile doorways is a part of his job description.
Gupta was puzzled by the sudden change in his behaviour, till he realised what might have prompted it. The CEO of the astrology platform recalled {that a} day earlier, he had been having a cellphone dialog the place he talked about a deal price between ₹100 to 500 crore.
He surmised that his driver had overheard the dialog and determined that he was an vital individual, and subsequently taken it upon himself to open the automobile door for him.
“Later I realised, on the second day I used to be discussing one thing on name the place I used to be speaking about 100-500 crores. And out of the blue he realised ki bada banda hai ye toh darwaja bhi kholna padega,” he wrote on X.
More about Puneet Gupta
Puneet Gupta is the founder and CEO of Astrotalk. In his personal phrases, he comes from a “lower-middle-class household”.
In a Quora put up three years in the past, Gupta mentioned that cash has not modified his life-style and that he nonetheless drives a Hyundai Grand i10 which he purchased in 2015.
In his put up, he additionally revealed that he dated a lady from an upper-middle class household who continually pushed him to earn extra. After an argument together with her, he give up his job with out a plan and moved again to his hometown of Bathinda, Punjab. He and his girlfriend additionally broke up round that point.
After a couple of months of wrestle, the place he ate low-cost meals and slept on the ground of his pal’s condo whereas juggling low-paying jobs, Gupta launched “an IT service firm named CodeYeti in April 2015 and ran it for two.5 years, earlier than pivoting the whole enterprise to a product named AstroTalk in October 2017.”







