Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns

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, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of

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. He was given the

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Award, the fourth Highest civilian award in India, in January 2020. He attended St. Columba's School, Delhi and finished schooling from there in 1981. There after, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1984. He completed his MBA from IIMA in 1989. He is ranked #68 in Forbes India Rich List 2020 with a net worth of $2.1 Billion.

Career

Sanjeev after his PG left a job marketing Horlicks at Hindustan Milkfood Manufacturers (after series of multinational mergers-and-acquisitions, now known as GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare India) in 1990 to pursue entrepreneurship. Sanjeev founded Info Edge in 1995. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up ''

'', jobs portal located on a server in India, and later ''Quadrangle.in'', an offline executive search business. In 2005, ''Naukri.com'' was reported as being India's largest web-based employment site. Building up in the websites business, Info Edge later launched other classified sites like ''99acres.com'' in real estate, ''

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'' in matrimony and ''Shiksha.com'' in education. He is also an astute investor, having invested in

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like ''

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'' and ''

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''. Additionally, he is a part of the 'Vision Circle' of FYI (Foundation for Young Innovators) - a shark tank for social initiatives exclusively open to high school students. He won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bikhchandani, Sanjeev Living people St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni Businesspeople from Uttar Pradesh St. Columba's School, Delhi alumni People from Noida Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry