The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha

Ever wondered what the story behind Zepto is? Find out all the fascinating details in this CAPTIVATING episode with Aadit Palicha!

In this episode, we have Aadit sharing his journey so far with us.

During the conversation, Aadit also mentioned about his first startup, moving back to India during Covid, dropping out of Stanford, and starting Zepto.

Notes -
00:00 - Intro
01:36 - Who Was Aadit Before Zepto?
02:36 - He Started His First Startup At THIS Age!
08:18 - Why Did He Drop Out Of Stanford?
10:21 - First round of funding from Y-combinator and Nexus
12:30 - Zepto's Biggest CHALLENGE So Far!
17:35 - Is The Grocery Sector A Viable Market To Upscale?
20:54 - Is It Possible To Become Profitable In This Space?
25:50 - Headwinds In Their Business
28:46 - Going Public In India At $10 Bn
34:00 - Where does 99%+ of his learnings come from?
37:45 - Things To Avoid During The Scaling Process


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[aravindsingh]

I have been very vocal about Aadit Palicha. His ideas always blow my mind everytime. I need to watch this ep probably 5 times more.

[rohitkadam]

His clarity of thought and understanding of unit economics and value accretion is incredible, at age 20!

[Rohitsingh-eiun]

He is crazy well spoken. The quality of articulation is to be admired.

[zxzxzxsw]

Need to dig in about the business models spoken in this interview. Informative.

[anupsinghchauhan]

Loved the podcast, I am huge aadit fan, seen all his interviews, I just love it

[PrinceKumar-hhyn]

Ride sharing for school 🎒 Kids while being a teen...
This is a role u can play as a senior..

[CricketwithKrickFans]

Very good interview! Incredible 'kid'! Lot of credit to his parents too!!

[TheNeonShoww]

We have been waiting to share this ep with you all :) Hope you all enjoy and please feel free to share your feedback with us. We would love to hear from you :)

-Nansi

[devrajdumbrea]

I heard this channels podcast for the first time, and it was soo in-depth, the host asked such good questions and the articulation after that was also phenomenal.

I loved it very much 🙏 thank you for doing it, this is going to be the channel I visit frequently form now onwards for my entrepreneurial journey ❤

[kabir]

I am running a health care startup. Prime venture will help me 🤨

[yashiyengar]

Beautiful podcast, great questions :)

[technikhil]

if your goal is to bump valuation based on number of users/active users. how long do you think this can sustain your business. soon you will see your losses going up. others might feel I am pessimistic and might ask me to be positive but think why flipkart, Amazon, Tatas are all in loss when it comes to eCommerce??

[vaijinaths]

Guys, you all know that he is a trust fund baby right? Comments like " He is a visionary like Andrew Carnige" is really funny.

[guptasagar]

Ye Byju Raveendran Jaise Dubai me milega 5 saal baad, Likh ke rakhle bhai Podcaster