Ankur Warikoo

warikoo is a serial entrepreneur, a bestselling author, public speaker and a content creator.
warikoo is an entrepreneur and is one of India’s top content creators. He currently runs WebVeda, an online school for young professionals. He is also a bestselling author, an angel investor and in his spare time loves to mentor entrepreneurs.
Presently, warikoo splits his time as:
● A content creator (where he engages a community of 15Mn+ followers across YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook),
● An entrepreneur, running his education startup WebVeda.com (an online school aimed to help young professionals around entrepreneurship, career management and personal growth.) Over 430,000+ students are enrolled in WebVeda as of today.
● A Mentor/investor to startups
He is also a 4-times bestselling author. His books Do Epic Shit (2021), Get Epic Shit Done (2022), Make Epic Money (2024) and Build An Epic Career (2025) have cumulatively sold over 1 Mn+ copies across 63 countries and 16 languages.
Previously, warikoo founded nearbuy.com, India’s largest local commerce app. He was its CEO from its inception in 2015 until 2019. Prior to that, Ankur was the founding CEO of Groupon’s India from 2011-15, and head of Groupon APAC from 2013-15.
warikoo started his entrepreneurial journey in 2008 when he co-founded Accentium Web along with 2 other batch-mates from ISB that ran websites such as Gaadi.com & Secondshaadi.com.
Thereafter, Ankur launched Rocket Internet’s India business and was part of the founding team of Jabong.com.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Ankur was a Management Consultant with Kearney for 3 years. He worked in Delhi, Dubai and New York during this time.
warikoo holds an MBA degree from the Indian School of Business (Class of 2006) where he was awarded the Young Leader Award. He also has an MS degree in Physics from Michigan State University and a BS degree in Physics from Hindu College, Delhi University.
Ankur was part of Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 List for India, Forbes Top 100 Digital Creators list, LinkedIn India’s Top Voices, LinkedIn India’s Spotlight List and India’s Top Executives under 40 by Business Today.
He lives in Delhi NCR, India with his wife and 2 kids.