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Born and brought up in Mumbai, Alok Kejriwal is a serial digital entrepreneur and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Games2win.

His first two companies, contests2win.com and Mobile2win, pioneered digital gaming and promotions in the world. The Walt Disney Co later acquired Mobile2win.

Alok’s first book, Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks, was a best-seller and won the C.K. Prahalad Best Business Book prize at the Bangalore Business Literature Festival in 2019.

Besides being a businessperson, Alok is an Art of Living Teacher and regularly facilitates meditation and breath workshops. He has been meditating since the last thirty years.

Alok is also a motivational speaker and has spoken at various corporate conferences, and at Wharton, Harvard Busi ...more

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Why did I write my book Why I stopped Wearing my Socks?

Why did I write this book “Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks.”?

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From my early school days, I’ve been an essayist. I like to write.

When I began my fist dot-com venture, “Contests2win” and survived the horrific dot-com crash, I got an opportunity to write a column in t Read more of this blog post »

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