Arun Pudur

Arun Pudur is the founder and group president of Celframe Corporation.

Arun Pudur
Born (1977-10-10) 10 October 1977
Chennai, India
OccupationPresident of Celframe

Early life and education

Pudur was born in Chennai, but his family shifted to Bengaluru, as his father used to stay 7 to 8 months a year there. His father, Sri Ranga, was a cinematographer.[1][2] Pudur is a graduate of the University of Bangalore, majoring in Business Management.[3][4]

Career

Pudur founded Celframe in 2001.[4]Billionaire.com in August 2015 reported that Celframe earned revenues of $6.8 billion the previous year.[4] The article says Celframe's original uptick in software sales was thanks to a change from a distributor to a partner model in 2005.[2][4]

In addition to technology, Pudur has various businesses including real estate, gold, and mining.[4][3]Forbes Magazine, which publishes the list of real-time billionaires investigated Pudur's claims of wealth in 2016. The magazine found the sources provided by Mr. Pudur as proof for his wealth to be unreliable and without credentials in its story titled "Wannabe Billionaire: Arun Pudur's Tech Fortune May Be Largely Fiction"

Controversies

In 2020, Pudur posted tweets claiming to manufacture hand sanitizers through his factories and to distribute them to "nursing homes, nursing homes(sic), & orphanages of all faiths". It was fact-checked that Pudur plagiarized[5][6][7][8] the photos from the charity efforts of Nebraska, USA base brewing company Lucky Bucket Brewing.

In November 2021, Indian fact-checking website Alt News Alt News, did a fact-check on a video tweeted by Pudur claiming that an Indian politician Akhilesh Yadav said "Jinnah Got India Freedom". The fact-check found the claim to be false and that (an) "initial portion has been cut out of the viral video (sic)".[9]

See also

References
  1. Khan, Tarannum (17 March 2015). "Arun Pudur: From Bengaluru to billions". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. "Full Show: Arun Pudur on High Flyers". Bloomberg Television. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  3. "Daulton Capital enters into US$105 million forward gold sales contract with Dubai's Salam International". BusinessIntelligence Middle East. 26 June 2012. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  4. Loader Wilkinson, Tara (6 August 2015). "Arun Pudur: Billionaire Tech Lessons". Billionaire.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. "So Much for Charity! Indian Tech "Billionaire" Lifts Relief Images from US Firm, Claims As His Own".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "US brewery accuses Indian tech billionaire Arun Pudur of 'lifting photos' for self promotion".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Fact Check: Indian businessman Arun Pudur's claims of distributing hand sanitiser for free busted".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "So a tech billionaire in India lifted photos from our twitter account in order to allege he was distributing hand sanitizer to local orphanages. I have not been drinking any Wicked Joe this morning, this is a real thing happening. Pray for our mentions".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. "Fact-check: Did Akhilesh Yadav say "Jinnah got India freedom"?".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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