Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.

Join us for a fireside chat with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth and Marketing, WebEngage, and Aloke Bajpai, CEO & Co-Founder, ixigo on Starting up: Marathon, Not a Sprint

Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large-scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA and returned to India to

launch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.

In this session you will be able to take away:

1. Choice of the industry - isn't it the Death Valley for so many attempts?


2. The journey's been long - did it feel tiring at any point?


3. What personal strengths should founders cultivate if they're getting into Marathon?


4. Isn't loyalty hard in the travel industry?