Dalip Thakur is a north Indian serial tech entrepreneur who founded Facekut social network in 2008 when orkut social network was going down in India and Facebook was newly introduced. Tooter is currently second desi version of Twitter, being Chitter as first one introduced in January 2019.
Later, Dalip Thakur sold this social network to which later sold to Sean Rad and eventually turned into Tinder.
Who is Dalip Thakur?
Apart from Tooter and Facekut he also Founded tech companies like Cyber Oaks and xRadiant.
A version of Facekut still exists and being soldas social script over here. Clone of Twitter can also be purchased from here.
Apart from this he founded four software companies and owns shares in Seven SAAS companies currently. He is the person behind Fanash, xRadiant Inc, CyberOaks Technologies, FaceKut, MockDrive, The Social Script, WEM, AffiliateJunction, and wrote first prototype of Tinder before selling it.
While still in his teenage years, Dalip began his career as a private school teacher then moved to the tech field and started as Service Engineer in HCL Infosystem which he didn’t find suitable to his interests and moved on to BPO’s and Call Centres for Part times in the search of new opportunities in software field alongside.
He found first opportunity in a start-up firm as Web/Graphics Designer which continued for two years, Then he learned Flash and ActionScript and slowly moved completely to software development. Worked as Software Engineer, Sr. SE, Project Lead, Project Manager, Program Manager and Turned Founder of Software Firms like Fanaash, xRadiatn Inc, etc. Slowly he turned a full-time entrepreneur.
During all this time he was able to work with and develop relationships with numerous business owners who found themselves struggling to bring great products into the market.
In 2011, while working as a part-time freelancer, Dalip helped bring one product into the mass market and made over $500,000 in less than 7 days.
It was when Dalip realized that his calling was to spearhead product launch and brand awareness.
He then partnered up with an existing friend and fellow entrepreneur to form the brain trust that is now popular SAAS business.
Since 2012, Dalip has been the face of the 3 company to success with absolutely no marketing budget. Dalip was able to navigate the unforgiving waters of the SAAS market to bring afloat a small but very well equipped company to compete with much bigger players in their hometown of Los Angeles and Atlanta Georgia.
Dalip has Mastery of all phases of the business venture life cycle, including conceptualization, design, development, leadership, resource management, milestones, business development, market penetration, and expansion.
His prime focus is on profitability and ability to identify/capitalize on opportunities to improve revenue and corner market through the integration of cutting-edge product/service offerings.
Proven track record of meeting and exceeding challenging business objectives and surpassing competitors.