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Started as a teacher from a village and built two companies of 50,000 CR. 1. Born in the small village of Hansi, Haryana, Anil Gupta made everyone proud when he went to BITS Pilani. Owing to his love for computers and electronics, he started his career as a teacher and then a job at EIL, earning just Rs 1350 a month. He was not happy. 😔 2. At 18, He quit his job and introduced optical fibre cables to India for the first time in the 1980s. He also decided to manufacture computers and CPUs. However, frequent power cuts made the entire process inefficient. He had to find a solution. 🤔 3. Everyone wanted electronic doorbells and emergency lights then, but the market was flooded with cheap imports. In 1989, Anil started to source from the Lajpat Rai market in Delhi and co-founded India's first mono monitors company. Microtek was born. 🚀 4. Microtek started achieving success and moved to CGA & EGA colour monitors, power supplies, and motherboards. But Anil knew that importing components was better. So, he took his uncle's money and went to Taiwan to source it. Microtek introduced its first high-tech, computer-controlled LED display. ✅ 5. He set up a 100% Indian-made colour monitor factory in Kundli, Haryana and became India's first computer monitor-makers in 1993. Microtek supplied giants like Olivetti, IBM, ACER, HCL, and PCL. But power cuts became worse in India in 1997. ⬇️ 6. Touted as the worst blackout of 50 years, Anil shifted to inverter and UPS, but his dealers struggled to find batteries for them. He partnered with US-based Prestolite but could not manage demand during peak season. He had to make his batteries and started another company. In 2001, Okaya was born. 🚀 7. The first Okaya battery plant, Kenzo-1 in Himachal Pradesh, commenced operations in 2002. He successfully built two more battery plants in Himachal and brought R&D and quality control in-house, investing 16.9 lakh sq ft and 700 engineers to help Okaya and Microtek. 🙌 8. By 2006, Microtek had taken the No. 1 spot in the Home UPS segment, surpassing the 1 million units production per year mark. By 2007, it had become one of India's top 20 IT companies and expanded to tubular solar, e-rickshaw batteries and stabilizers. It crossed the 2000 CR turnover mark. 📈 9. As it expanded to EV batteries and Ferrato (premium scooters and motorcycles) and OTTOPG (passenger and cargo 3-wheelers with Okaya EV, it started ramping up its 30,000 dealers network across Punjab and Haryana. It had crossed the 3000 CR turnover mark. 💰 10. Today, Okaya Power Group (rebranded) has over 55,000 dealers and has delivered 110 million products to 1 million customers. Microtek remains the No. 1 with 29 patents, a 5 lac + sq ft factory and a presence in 29 countries. 💪 ➡️Who would have thought that The 1350 Rs earning teacher in Hansi who even washed away his cheque for the first order of 50 monitors would create a 50,000 CR group in 36 years? 🙏