Sunil Tej is the founder of Gulpie, which is on a mission to democratize building trust in discovery, and give back the value created to its creators. Previously, he led product and growth teams at consumer-focused early-stage startups. Since he started his professional journey in 2011, Sunil has worked with 6 startups across Germany, UK, India, and Africa. Sunil was the first product/growth hire at HackerRank, India's first YCombinator (S11) startup. There, he built 100+ Hacker Clubs by starting a campus ambassador program to help acquire the first 200,000 programmers. During this time, Sunil also conceptualized the first version of the gamification system to boost developer engagement. He coined 'Hackos', points earned by solving programming challenges on HackerRank. As his last stint before founding Gulpie, Sunil worked at Juniqe (Berlin), Europe's largest art eCommerce platform, where he was the second product hire - helped scale the business to $25m ARR. Other startups Sunil worked with are Cuponation (Munich), a Rocket Internet venture that is one of the world's leading couponing sites; Propertyflock (London), a marketplace for realtors and property seekers; and New Rubric (Bengaluru), personalized teaching and learning management solution for school teachers to assess cognitive abilities of students.