Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Jaydip Biniwale and Abhishek Doshi of Downtown Club. Downtown Club is an e-commerce platform for discovery of D2C brands. The Downtown app enables users to browse new brands and products every day through a personalized virtual shopping experience.


They dive deep into Abhishek and Jaydip's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Downtown Club.
 

Sections:

(1:11) Born and raised   

(5:58) Rejecting IIT and dropping out of Purdue

(8:33) The first startup bug

(12:29) The CEPT experience and finding each other

(20:13) Flirting with entrepreneurship

(23:11) The decision to finally start up

(28:11) Pandemics, plans and pivots

(31:39) 3 steps to epiphany

(35:04) The story behind the name "Downtown"

(37:02) From idea to initialization - Downtown’s early days

(40:05) Building Downtown’s MVP

(48:29) Conscious culture building

(50:53) Abhishek’s & Jaydip’s sleepless nights

(52:44) A day at Downtown

(54:52) Downtown - then vs now

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