Vaibhav Gupta of Udaan: on Building India's fastest Unicorn in B2B
Evolving for the Next Billion - Podcast autorstwa Notable Capital
Kategorie:
For the first episode of the Evolving for the Next Billion podcast, we have Vaibhav Gupta, co-founder of Udaan, India's top B2B eCommerce. The company connects manufacturers, wholesalers with retailers online, often referred to as India's fastest unicorn, having achieved over $1 billion valuations in a short period of 26months. Udaan is a GGV portfolio.
Prior to starting Udaan, VG was the senior vice president in Business Finance and Analytics at Flipkart, one of the most successful e-commerce platforms out of India, sold to Walmart in a $16 billion deal last year. His other two co-founders for Udaan were the former president of operations and CTO at Flipkart. VG holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Virginia. Welcome to the show, VG.
On the show, VG shared how his time at Flipkart, the eCommerce giant of India sold to Walmart in a 16-billion-dollar deal, helped him launching Udaan, why distribution is a much bigger business in India than retail, India's second generation of founders, and the most frequent item he buys online.
- For full transcript of the show, go to nextbn.ggvc.com
- Join our listeners'community, go to nextbn.ggvc.com/community.
