About Amit

Amit lives in midtown Manhattan at House 2.0 with four of his best friends San Francisco, CA. He enjoys taking photos, watching disaster movies, and dreaming up new ideas.

His full-time obsession is a thing called Photojojo, but here’s a bit of history…

1999

While at Amherst College Amit Gupta co-founded The Daily Jolt, a network of student-run websites now operating at over a hundred college campuses. Over the past seven years, clients such as The Peace Corps, Universal Music, Verizon, Samsung, and Virgin have used the Jolt as their gateway to college students. At the Jolt, Amit helped design and build the initial website, oversaw feature development, co-wrote the business plan, raised capital and hired key talent.

2004

Amit helped create ChangeThis, a platform dedicated to spreading powerful ideas via email, RSS, and blogs, for Seth Godin. He co-wrote the business plan and, over a period of four months, oversaw a team of interns and an outside development firm in the creation and launch of the site. After launch, he served as managing editor for six months, and oversaw the operation of ChangeThis while working with business leaders and marketers such as Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki, Malcolm Gladwell, and Mark Cuban to publish and promote their manifestos. In early 2005, he helped transition ChangeThis to its new stewards, 800ceoread.

2005

Amit consulted for NYC-based Creative Good, the industry’s oldest customer experience firm. At Creative Good, he put his design and customer experience knowledge to use improving business metrics at companies such as Pearson and Apple. He was a contributing author on The Big Moo, a best-selling business compilation released in October of 2005, co-authored with Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki, Alan Webber, Mark Cuban, Chris Meyer, and more. He also camped out in the middle of Times Square.

2006

Amit brought BarCamp, the technology un-conference, to New York City. More than 200 alpha-geeks decended from all over New York City and the country for a weekend full of informal, unscripted tech presentations. The event featured a sleepover and sponsors included RedBull, Squidoo, Mark Hurst’s GEL conference, Flock, SXSW, and more.

In April of 2006, Amit launched Photojojo, an email newsletter devoted to finding the very best Photo tips, DIY projects, and Gear. Photojojo has been seen several times in MAKE:, ReadyMade, The Wall Street Jounral, MSNBC & USA Today Online, 37 Signals’ Signal vs. Noise, Digg, Del.icio.us Popular, Lifehacker, news.yahoo.com, The Flickr Blog.