Our founder & CEO Sagar Azad’s career is a perfect example of backward integration. Starting with a job at Crossword bookstore in Kota, he rose to become an entrepreneur with Champ Readers, a specialist PR firm for authors. Authors who have benefitted from Champ Readers include, Amish Tripathi, Durjoy Datta, Ravinder Singh, Nikita Singh, Sudeep Nagarkar, Sumrit Shahi, Savi Sharma, Aarya Babbar, Christopher C. Doyle, Kapil Raj, Bhaavna Arora, Priyank Aryan, Monisha K Gumber, Mukta Mahajani, Prachi Garg, Siddharth Shirole, Devanshi Sharma, Nitish Bhushan & more.
He started Anecdote Publishing House in January 2021. APH has since published national and international authors.
Awards & Recognitions
- Recognized as the Founder of a start-up in community engagement through reading, by Urban Development Minister Shri Shanti Dhariwal & DC Kota Shri Muktanand Agarwal.
- Awarded The Rajdhani Gaurav in 2019-20 award for the year-long contribution as a start-up in community engagement through reading & writing promotion all over India, by Shri Ravi Kalra Founder President of The Earth Saviours Foundation.
- Achievers Icon Award 2020 in the category of Entrepreneurial Leadership in promoting budding authors in India.
- The Young Achievers’ Award 2021 as a founder of Champ Readers Pvt. Ltd. in Recognition of Outstanding Professional Achievement & Contribution in Nation Building.
- Awarded The Rajdhani Gaurav again in 2021-22 award for the year-long contribution as a start-up in community engagement through reading & writing promotion all over India, by Shri Veer Dahiya, Bollywood actor, lyricist & singer, and Shri Aviral Gupta from MTV Love School fame.
