Its wrap-up time in office, close to 9 PM on 1st june 2011. I was just browsing through the pending emails and tasks of this week and suddenly Thillai pinged me asking whats the plan for 3rd June (Xaprio’s 6th Anniversary). After our brief chat about the plan, he started asking about the “Story of Xaprio”.. Questions like When we started up, Why we started up and How we reached here, started coming towards me. I was a bit struck with the work, but i do really wanted to share the story with him, so i started answering the questions as fast i can.. a couple of minutes in the chat and i started feeling nostalgic.. I started remembering every single minute of our journey, so thought of sharing a part of it with you..

Its been most eventful & remember-able 6 years of my life.. We started off in a one room office and it really was a “Garage”. I can never forget the days, when it was so hard to manage the work between Internet & Electricity cuts..  had to rush to the internet cafe to upload client’s work.. the fights over which song will be played on speakers.. our first payment.. the joy of getting repeat customers.. hiring our first employee.. building a world class team.. partnering with Fortune 2000 companies.. taking Xapads live within 6 hours.. maintaining three digit growth rate.. the parties on getting overdue payments to frustration on losing projects.. Seen it all in this time.. But I honestly love these 6 years of my life.. The happiness of building a company from grounds up can not be compared to anything else.. its better then “Sex”.

The best part was shutting the mouths of all the critics who were cynical about our success, and emerging as a successful global entity, which is debt-free, investment-free, cash flow positive and profitable.

Hundreds of guys and gals joined us in this tenure and played a very important part in our success. For us it was more of a personal relationship then a professional one. We were together in every Up & Down and faced everything together be it the recession of 2008-09 or the high tide afterwards. The support we got from every Xaprian was phenomenal. Xaprio is more of a cult then a company, only a true Xaprian can understand the meaning behind this.

As of now, we have a team of 60+ Xaprians, flagship brands like Xaprio Solutions & Xapads and offices in Noida, Bangalore & Jeddah but the fun we had in the initial years of Xaprio can not be compared to anything else.

On 3rd June 2011, We will be completing 6 years of Xaprio’s existence. Entering into 7th year, i would like to whole-heartedly thank everyone associated with Xaprio, be it our clients, our vendors, our partners, our employees, our families, our friends, our well-wishers or our competitors.. We couldn’t have done this without you.

Thanks a lot for being there. :-)

At the end, All i want to say is.. “Xaprians never Retreat!  Xaprians never Surrender!  Go spread the word. Let everyone know the truth of this. Let each among them search his own soul and while you’re at it, search your own.”

Nitin Gupta

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