Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks

By the time he was twenty, Alok Kejriwal had his life pre-planned for him. He would inherit the family’s socks manufacturing business and be the hard-working, money-minting, quintessential Marwari businessman, forever. Except that it didn’t turn out that way. A few years after surviving the family set-up, something turned up that sent Alok on a completely different career path: the Internet! A crazy business idea Alok had turned out to be a winner. Soon, Alok was fighting and thriving in a world completely different from the one he had grown up in. A world where technology breakthroughs, VCs and out-of-the-box thinking decided the real winners. Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks is Alok’s real-life story of starting up a business.

Born and brought up in Mumbai, Alok Kejriwal is a serial digital entrepreneur and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Games2win. His first two companies, contests2win.com and Mobile2win, pioneered digital gaming and promotions in the world. The Walt Disney Co. later acquired Mobile2win.

Besides being a businessperson, Alok is an Art of Living teacher and regularly facilitates meditation and breath workshops. He has been meditating for the last thirty years.

Alok’s first book, Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks, was a bestseller and won the C.K. Prahalad Best Business Book prize at the Bangalore Business Literature Festival in 2019. Alok is also a motivational speaker and has spoken at various corporate conferences, as well as at the Wharton School and the Harvard Business School, and many of the IIMs and IITs.

Alok takes a keen interest in mentoring emerging entrepreneurs and writes a popular daily blog #dhandhekibaat on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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