19-Year-Old Stanford Dropout's $100 Billion Dream | Left, Right & Centre

Nine-month-old startup Zepto has raised funding of 200 million dollars, taking its valuation to $900 million - just an inch away from the unicorn club! On tonight's episode of Left, Right & Centre, NDTV speaks to Zepto CEO and co-founder Aadit Palicha, who says that he felt a "deep level of conviction in disrupting the way people buy groceries, in terms of speed, quality & reliability".

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[joelalvares]

Kiddo is very mature for his age going by the way he the best to him and his venture!!!

[mayurkanth]

India needs more and more startups in HARDTECH sector like semiconductor, solar panels, material science, AI/ML, space technology, supercomputer, EV, drone, robotics, 3D printing.This isnt happening actually and no one is talking about it

[ritishrawat]

Entrepreneurship is the future it's difficult but not as difficult to get a government job .

[ajaychandra]

Only NDTV is showing the true Journalsim ❤️

[TarunKumar-uogn]

These valuations are worthless. Time will show it.

[ayushshaw]

What we really need is a 10 min ambulance service

[globalcitizenn]

As long as delivery is free it’s a very useful app. They should pay their drivers well.. not rely on tips from customers.. the whole company depends on them

[gaadistuff]

Its not about zepto or its revenue, you can get an idea directly from its numbers growth that how mich money we indians are having in our power

[shivinunitholi]

19 and he's way mature for his age. The maturity shows in his words

[akhilchalil]

Reality of many 🦄.


Start a company with a rosy story, pretend to solve a big issue, show unrealistic valuation, hire lot of employees to justify this valuation, spend maximum on marketing ( blog, vlog, insta, newspapers, online news etc etc), get maximum funding, hire highly paid CVD level titles, take maximum remuneration even though company is making zero profit, sign up with vendor companies owned by relatives, create fake invoices to divert funds to these vendors, with other vendors make the contract so complicated that you don't hold any responsibility, hide the fact that you are just an aggregrator, reveal it only when an issue arise.


Sell the company, make maximum money you can make.

Except junior level employees, non relative vendors and few investors, all are happy.

[warmsound]

Once they touch 10b they will sell it to Amazon or flipkart

[youtube-admin]

No. All these startups are simply surviving on fundings. Once it's fully absorbed, these companies struggle to survive.

[VARMOT]

Need more samsungs and audis than instamart and amazon lites in india .

[bearyallen]

zepto delivery people have been creating a lot of traffic issues in my area. not very responsible drivers. the boys should have stayed in stanford. most startups are delivery apps or sell Chinese headphones in India. no real innovation.

[themastermindteacher]

People who are saying that it is copy cat model with no me tell you one thing if you can save a minute of your customer then it is a innovation ...as in baniya community we say. ....dhandha wahi hai jaha tumne dhoondh liye...

[areeshw]

Aditya betrays a degree of maturity far beyond his age 👏👏👏

[animeshm]

But how is it possible to deliver in 10 minutes?

[amoghavarsha]

Quick delivery is rubbish its risking life

[VARMOT]

Instamart lite .which was also founded by indian born dude. It is not some radical idea .we need more manufacturing sector /innovation . Semi conductors, EVs etc .our E commerce giants are mainly used by us . Only when our company products are used by the world, can we get into that upper middle income bracket and beyond

[haftavasuli]

I doubt whether these quick commerce internet companies will last in long run