Herman Narula

Herman Narula (born April 1988) is a British Indian businessman and the co-founder and CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited, a British multinational technology company founded in 2012. It makes distributed simulation software for video games and corporate use.

Herman Narula
BornApril 1988 (age 32)
Delhi, India
NationalityBritish
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge University
Occupationentrepreneur
Known forco-founder and CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited
TitleCEO, Improbable
Parent(s)Harpinder Singh Narula
Surina Narula

Early life

Narula was born in April 1988,[1] in Delhi, India.[2][3] He is the son of Harpinder Singh Narula, who runs DSC Ltd, the family construction business.[2] He has two older brothers, Anhad and Manhad, who work for DSC.[4]

He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, and Girton College, Cambridge, where he studied computer science.[2][4]

Career

In 2012, Narula and friends from Cambridge set up Improbable, which at the end of 2013 was still being run from his parents' house, Hyver Hall, in Hertfordshire.[5]

In May 2017, following a further $502 million of investment, the company is estimated to be worth $1 billion.[3]

gollark: > <@!258639553357676545>> If you really want a good example, how about the JS you run when you access this site? How about the JS that is run when accessing other sites? A lot of them could use static or server side dynamically generated pages as opposed to JS.<@474726021652807680> A lot of time that's for development convenience as opposed to anything else. Or so it can actually respond in reasonable time to input and stuff.
gollark: DRM is inherently broken, it'll always run into this if people are dedicated enough.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
gollark: Like the AACS master key thing a while ago.
gollark: Encryption keys of some sort for DRM? Those are subject to some bits of the DMCA IIRC.

References
  1. "Herman NARULA - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. "Meet Improbable, The Startup Building The World's Most Powerful Simulations". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. Susannah Butter (30 May 2017). "Meet the man who's about to turn London into a virtual reality playground | London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. Amit Roy. "Eye on England: Herman Narula and his Improbable story, Dear Dad, Abir's sequel and Tittle tattle". telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. Solon, Olivia (29 May 2014). "The Improbable dream to radically transform online gaming | WIRED UK". Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.


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