Practo\u2019s co-founder Abhinav Lal\u2019s love affair with computers started in 1998 when his school in Jharkhand set up a computer lab. The time spent at the lab convinced him that a career in computers and mathematics was something up his street. But to his surprise, he couldn\u2019t get into any good coaching institute for IIT entrance preparation. So, after grade 12, he chose the next best option available and took admission in NITK Surathkal in 2005. This is where he met Shashank ND, now co-founder and CEO of Practo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Practo\u2019s co-founder Abhinav Lal\u2019s love affair with computers started in 1998 when his school in Jharkhand set up a computer lab. The time spent at the lab convinced him that a career in computers and mathematics was something up his street. But to his surprise, he couldn\u2019t get into any good coaching institute for IIT entrance preparation. So, after grade 12, he chose the next best option available and took admission in NITK Surathkal in 2005. This is where he met Shashank ND, now co-founder and CEO of Practo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}