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{{short description|Indian American internet entrepreneur}}
{{hatlink|For other meanings, see [[Vikas Gupta (disambiguation)]].}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Vikas Gupta
| image = Vikas_Gupta,_CEO_%26_Founder.jpg
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Haridwar]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Internet entrepreneur
| education = [[IIT Kanpur]] ([[Bachelor of Technology|B.Tech.]]), [[Georgia Tech]] ([[Master of Science|M.S.]])
| known_for = {{ubl
| Founder and CEO of [[Jambool]]
| Head of Consumer Payments at [[Google]]
}}
}}
'''Vikas Gupta''' is an Indian American internet [[entrepreneur]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vikas Gupta's Crunchbase Profile|url=http://www.crunchbase.com/person/vikas-gupta}}</ref> He is known for having founded [[Jambool]], an online company that was acquiredby Google in August 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Google's Jambool acquisition confirmed|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-confirms-jambool-acquisition/}}</ref> Gupta has also joined [[Google]] as the Head of Consumer Payments<ref>{{cite news|title=Google’s Head of Consumer Payments, Vikas Gupta, Resigns|url=http://allthingsd.com/20120126/googles-head-of-consumer-payments-vikas-gupta-resigns/}}</ref> after the acquisition. Prior to founding Jambool, Gupta worked at [[Amazon.com]], where he led the payments and web services groups. His newest venture is Play-i,which he started in November 2012.<ref>http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/emerging-businesses/startups/play-i-startup-on-programmable-robots-by-iit-alumni-raises-million-dollars/articleshow/26395640.cms</ref>

==Early life==
Gupta was born in [[Haridwar]], India where his father worked at [[Bharat Heavy Electricals]] as one of the few who worked with computers. When Gupta was 12, his father left his well paying job to start his own small-scale industry in Chandigarh, and grew that business successfully over 20+ years. Gupta attributes his father as the first entrepreneur he knows and his inspiration to become an entrepreneur himself.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

== Career ==

=== Amazon ===
In May 1999, Gupta joined Amazon as a software engineer. During the first few years at Amazon, he rebuilt the Amazon payments infrastructure and launched one of the earliest service-oriented architectures within Amazon. In 2003 he joined the newly formed web services team, where he took on the mission to build the payments web service to monetize the web services Amazon was embarking on building. The resulting product was the [[Amazon Flexible Payments Service]]. In 2004, Vikas co-founded Amazon's development office in [[Bangalore, India]].

=== Jambool ===
While at Amazon, Gupta met [[Reza Hussein]]. Together, they left in 2006 to found Jambool. Jambool started out as an online collaborative research tool. In 2008, Jambool launched Social Gold, a direct payments platform for virtual goods. Over the next two years it grew to the most widely used direct payments platform by social games on Facebook.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Google acquired Jambool in August 2010.

=== Google ===
After the acquisition, Gupta joined Google as the Head of Consumer Payments. During his time at Google, he led the efforts on online payments services. The Social Gold platform was integrated and launched at Google I/O in 2011, to power payments for Chrome web store and Google+. Gupta left Google in January 2012.

=== Wonder Workshop ===
Vikas founded [[Wonder workshop]] to focus on one problem: make coding, and learning to code, fun and easy for every child through play.<ref>[http://www.hackingplay.com/hello-world-2/ Hello World!] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502034553/http://www.hackingplay.com/hello-world-2/ |date=May 2, 2013 }}</ref> Wonder Workshop is building robots and software that enables children at all ages to play and code with. Wonder Workshop was launched as Play-i, and renamed to Wonder Workshop in September, 2014.

=== Patents ===
* {{patent|US|7584152|Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|7502760|Providing payments automatically in accordance with predefined instructions}}
* {{patent|US|7383231|Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|7324976|Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|8150768|Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|8150769|Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|7729994|Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions}}
* {{patent|US|7742994|Providing payments automatically in accordance with predefined instructions}}
* {{patent|US|8190588|Providing a distributed transaction information storage service}}
* {{patent|US|8296568|Systems and methods for authenticating an electronic transaction}}
* {{patent|US|8315945|Transferring money using a mobile electronic device}}

==References==
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