We've been on both sides of the hiring table.

Our story

Around 2014, Sameer Parwani hired two freshers at CouponDunia - Abhishek Gaikwad and I, Siddharth Gopi. We were unproven, straight out of college, and had zero practical work experience.

Sameer took a bet on us anyway. Four years later, the three of us started TopHire together.

If you want proof that TopHire is good at identifying talent early - well, we're the proof 😛

We built TopHire because we'd lived through the hiring problem ourselves; not as recruiters, but as operators.

I've built multiple businesses from the ground up. As a Cornell undergrad, I built RateDesi, a social media network that grew to 10 million visits a month.

This was back in 2003-before AWS existed-when you had to host web servers on your own laptop :)

In 2010, I bootstrapped CouponDunia, which grew to 300 employees at its peak. In 2014, I sold CouponDunia to the Times Group, in one of India's largest affiliate marketing deals.

Along the way, the single most important realization I've had is the criticality of hiring the right team. It's the only way for a company to scale from 0 to 100 & beyond. I've personally built technology, product, marketing, business and various other support teams from scratch-oftentimes leading these teams myself before delegating the function to a VP level hire.

And, well, there's a big difference between saying you've built those teams as a recruiter versus as a founder. Ultimately, the responsibility of whether the business succeeds is thrust on the founders of the company and the team they put in place.

At TopHire, my team and I are codifying all of our hard-earned learnings into helping you build an exceptional team.