User:Ritika.puri

My Motivations

The Wikipedia community helped me get through high school, college, and graduate school. Now, I'm excited to give back.

Working in the Internet industry, I look forward to contributing to articles on entrepreneurship, notable startup acquisitions, business relationships, and evolving business models. My goal is to help others learn while keeping up to date on industry happenings... that happen to move quite quickly.

Affiliations & Conflict Disclosure

I am not new to Wikipedia, but I am just now wrapping my mind around the various conflict of interest policies. I do want to disclose that I work for ValueClick Brands, a subsidiary of ValueClick, Inc., which owns websites like Investopedia and CouponMountain.com. While I do realize that my affiliation could be considered a conflict of interest, I do wish to reiterate that I wholeheartedly support Wikipedia's commitment to unbiased information from a neutral point of view.

While I do wish to contribute to my companies' pages, my motivation comes from my underlying commitment to the Internet industry. ValueClick has been a major player in the sector, and we've been at the center of many debates in both a positive and negative light. I do think that even though I work for ValueClick, I am committed enough to Wikipedia to reconcile any potential conflicts of interest.

I openly encourage and welcome anyone to evaluate my contributions to the Coupon Mountain and ValueClick pages as well as any others for affiliated pages like Commission Junction and Investopedia.

I am not here to sell any products, nor am I here to write a promotional pitch. I am here to share knowledge, good and bad, about topics that I know and understand quite well. I just happen to work for a couple of them, but in no way will that affiliation ever overpower my belief in and support for the value that Wikipedia provides. For that reason, I want to take extra caution to make sure that I avoid problems resulting from perceived conflict of interest.

I Donate

While I could and should donate more time to the Wiki community, I have donated money, and I am extremely proud of that.