Achiever's Success Story
“I take the art of creating a product/business to solve real – world problems as my Ikigai”
Shailesh Gupta, a Forbes 30 Under 30, Y Combinator, serial entrepreneur, and, currently, the Founder & CEO of Yolobus, sees entrepreneurship as a way of life, a means to fully express himself. It gives him freedom, flexibility, and the opportunity to create something valuable and meaningful from scratch for society. An integral part of Startup India for more than a decade, his entrepreneurial life started in his third year of college. He has, since, co – founded several successful start – ups, all built from ground zero with an aim to solve real problems through scalable and sustainable strategies.
A practitioner of Ikigai, Shailesh Gupta believes that the purpose of life is to be happy. It gives peace for the present, clarity for the future, and creates positivity all around. He loves to identify everyday problems & opportunities, challenge the status quo and disrupt industries through innovative, scalable, and sustainable solutions. Popularly known as SG, Shailesh Gupta is an unorthodox leader who walks his talk every day.
He represents a model of entrepreneurship that picks unattended problems, turns the state of affairs, and create a success story out of it. His latest venture, Yolobus, has secured a differentiated positioning by delivering the unprecedented safety and hygienic bus travel condition in India which was suffering from dilapidated conditions in this sector. By picking up an unattended problem thus far, Shailesh has set an example of entrepreneurship that goes beyond the obvious choices. He is driven by an innate capability to create market fit products and has proved it time and again in diverse industries. Armed with a knack for spotting talent, he is a hands – on commander who has a keen eye for details.
Shailesh believes in staying on the ground, with his people and building a culture of inclusive growth. He wants to revolutionize the start – up ecosystem by working with young entrepreneurs with great ideas to help them solve, strategize, and scale and to learn from them. Shailesh Gupta is an example of the value that can be delivered by striking the right balance of talent, leadership, ethics, and customer and people centricity. A big fan of reading, he also loves leading a healthy lifestyle and travel around the world.
As he always says, “In the end, whatever is inside your cup is what will spill out”. He is a Young Entrepreneur 2020 by IAF Awards 2020.