A father-son chat fuelled engineer Archit Gupta’s entrepreneurial ambition
ClearTax CEO's father spoke to him about the complexities of the online tax filing portal of the government.
By ET Bureau |
Agencies
If it wasn’t for a conversation with his father, Archit Gupta, the CEO of ClearTax, would never have been the successful entrepreneur that he is.
“It all began in the sweltering Delhi summer of 2010. I was then an engineer at Data Domain in the US and was visiting my parents. My dad and I began to speak about the complexities of the government’s recently introduced online tax filing portal,” he told a business magazine recently.
Gupta learnt from his father that not only an average tax payer, but also professionals like him struggled to master the portal.
“The government platform had an Excel-based tool. You had to download that thing and be very sure of what you were filing. Then you had to generate an XML file, which had to be uploaded manually,” Gupta said. He went back to his job and spent the next few months trying to gauge the feasibility of building a self-serving platform. The rest, as the cliché goes, is history.
“It all began in the sweltering Delhi summer of 2010. I was then an engineer at Data Domain in the US and was visiting my parents. My dad and I began to speak about the complexities of the government’s recently introduced online tax filing portal,” he told a business magazine recently.
Gupta learnt from his father that not only an average tax payer, but also professionals like him struggled to master the portal.
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“The government platform had an Excel-based tool. You had to download that thing and be very sure of what you were filing. Then you had to generate an XML file, which had to be uploaded manually,” Gupta said. He went back to his job and spent the next few months trying to gauge the feasibility of building a self-serving platform. The rest, as the cliché goes, is history.
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