iNM Magazine Volume 7 | August 2015
Cover Story
MY EPOCH
Praneet Singh Sahai
Co-founder, My Epoch
“ My Epoch is not just a yearbook it is a snapshot of
fun, fights and friendship. It is a flashback ”
few meets, convincing him to work at the least cost and
that we would give him regular printing work he gave us a
cost that most students could afford.
One fine day of February 2013, standing at a tea stall at
IIT Delhi, Puneet, Tushar & I - Puneet said “I am going to
miss my college days. e most beautiful four years are
about to end and will just remain a memory”. We all got
nostalgic. Not wanting to graduate or move on from this
life. All the fun, bunks, late night maggi, night outs,
drinks and the biggest of all was, leaving friends behind.
We knew life goes on so I either had to graduate or fail to
stay back for another year.
Now, things were going good, we were having about
40000 clicks on our website in a day. Imagine 40 students
were writing 800 testimonials for their friends on an
average along with uploading their profile pictures,
personal information and their best moments.
We got a few orders from few batches and were set to
make a profit in the same year. After two busy months
and deciding not to take up jobs, me and Puneet invested
full time. Tushar chose his job for the time being but was
helping us and working on making My Epoch website
and back end work seamlessly in his free time. We were
not taking more orders and took time off to make the
backend work, revamp the social portal and focus on
what more can we offer.
Puneet suddenly said “What will I get in r