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March 15, 2017
People

Budding Them Dreams: Aniket Gupta – The (not so) Engineered Genius

March 15, 2017
People

Budding Them Dreams: Aniket Gupta – The (not so) Engineered Genius

Another dreamer of our chronicle is-

Aniket Gupta: The (not so) Engineered Genius

Aniket Gupta is an engineer, despise to take it up as his profession, because he never wanted to be one, in the first place. So when his calling urged him, he tried finding fate in something new and something unconventional. He founded SpacePlexx in September 2016, a venture that acts as a locus point, where people coming from different backgrounds, work together and yet grow individually. SpacePlexx not only, helps numerous businesses to bloom contingently, but also aids individuals to aspire higher and achieve more from life.

  • How and when did it start?

Since his college days, Aniket mulled over the idea to someday come up with a holistic space for co-working and make it a business in itself. He thought that concept would not only help him earn his livelihood but would also let him connect with number of diverse personalities and would become a well organised community in itself. He aspired to provide an accessible platform to newbies, who wanted to do something of their own but lacked resources. So he started talking about it with people and tried imparting knowledge about the idea and benefits that it would bring. Finally he founded SpacePlexx and the intelligible results became evident enough as it turned out that coworking was an efficient and cheaper way to do business in the long run, rather than having a private place to call office.

  • What was the motivation behind it?

He first gleaned about this concept in Ahmedabad and considered of bringing something like it, in his own town. He realized that the major problems faced by many visionaries in the city was lack of support and accessible resources that stopped them in pursuing their dreams. Surat is budding with energetic youth and he felt it would be useful to have a platform like this where the enthusiasts would not only experience a complete new format of workplace sharing, but would also be contented with their striving professional growth.

  • Challenges faced:

Even though, Surat is a progressing city as a whole, at heart it is still en-rooted with the conventional idea of doing work. People don’t really understand the concept of coworking, so the biggest ongoing challenge is to convince the localities that how greatly it will help all. But with great optimism, Aniket believes that with so many budding freelancers and startups coming up, SpacePlexx will soon gain rapport in this town.

  • Future plans:

Right now, the place entertains the capacity of 20 people efficiently, amongst whom many are freelancers, social entrepreneurs, and aspiring businessmen. Aniket wishes to increase the space so as to accomodate upto 50 coworkers and further expand in different cities, making SpacePlexx a proper, organised Eco-system for coworking.

Stay tuned, more such stories are coming up.