Shaadi.com

Anupam finished his education and went back to India. With little else to do, he used to sit in his father's office and work on websites for other companies.

Simultaneously, he encountered one of those traditional matchmakers who will do everything it takes to get you married. He tried to pair Anupam with some of his clients in an effort to preserve his reputation. When the matchmaker was at the height of his powers, Anupam had a notion that would change his life forever.

And so, as he was trying to get rid of the matchmaker, Anupam thought to himself, what if there was a portal that could act as a virtual matchmaker for weddings? What if all the information these guys had was put up on the Internet for anyone to see, willing to marry? This would substantially simplify the process in addition to getting rid of any inefficiencies and geographic restrictions.

Consequently, Anupam released the first iteration of Sagaai.com carelessly in 1997. This was not so much a stable enterprise as it was an experiment at the time. Though he participated in the business as well, he did it more on the weekends and kept his job as his top priority. Because it was the source of income, he used all of the cash he had or had saved for the creation of the web module.

A fascinating series of events took place in 2000–2001 when the dot com bubble broke and the majority of the local businesses filed for bankruptcy. The company he was working for at the time, Micro Strategy, which had a pre-dot com crisis valuation of more than $50 billion, had likewise completely failed.