Founder and CEO of leading podcast platform, Hubhopper, Gautam Raj Anand, is an award-winning tech entrepreneur who has made a major contribution in making India become the third largest country in podcast consumption. An Economics graduate from Delhi University, Mr. Anand founded Hubhopper – the country’s only end-to-end platform which provides solutions for everything podcasting – in 2015. 

Under his leadership, Hubhopper has become a one-stop destination for everything podcasting and has changed the way people create podcasts in India and allied emerging markets. For his path-breaking approach, Mr. Anand has been recognized as a member of Fortune 40 Under 40 in 2021. He was also a part of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Asia for media and technology (batch of 2018) and has been named among ET’s Leaders of Tomorrow. In July 2018, he bagged the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year: Online Business award from Entrepreneur Magazine. 

His career milestones also comprise being named among Business World’s Under 30 cohort and being voted among YourStory’s Tech30 for 2019. Through his entrepreneurial journey, Mr. Anand has advocated on behalf of the medium across various prestigious institutions, including Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, IIM (Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Indore), IIT, FMS (Delhi), and ISB (Mohali and Hyderabad), and represented India as a speaker at the Forbes Under30 Global Summit in Berlin (2019).