Biography
Vipul grew up in New Delhi, India. A determined autodidact, he spent most of his teenage years outside classrooms, writing computer programs and playing competitive Table Tennis. At the age of 13, he won the junior state championship and played on the national Table Tennis circuit until he graduated from high school. Vipul attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi for undergraduate studies in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, but eventually dropped out to pursue his interests in software design. In the late-90s, Vipul co-founded, with Ashish Gulhati, an Internet privacy company (Sense/Net) for early Internet users in India and wrote extensively for computer magazines and industry journals, including a regular column, Net Zeppelin, on networking protocols for the Indian edition of the PC World Magazine. In 2003, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
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