IN THE HAUS

Leadership lessons from a 19 year old, while scaling a billion dollar grocery business | Aadit Palicha (Zepto) with Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)

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Saksham Mendiratta is In The Haus with Aadit Palicha, co-founder of Zepto.Zepto started as an experiment during the pandemic; (born out of personal need to get instant grocery delivery in Mumbai). Over a quick span of time, it became so relevant and formidable that it pushed Aadit to drop out of Stanford to build this into a full time venture.Raising their latest round in May 2022, for USD 200 million, it bumped Zepto’s valuation to USD 900 million. But the challenges of building a hyper-scaling venture at 19 years is an interesting one to watch from the outside.Saksham & Aadit dive into the mindset it takes to be the CEO of a venture like Zepto, every single day.They talk about:

  • The meaning of entrepreneurship
  • Weekends & passion
  • Inflection point into entrepreneurship
  • Hiring folks way more experienced than you
  • Customer experience for Zepto’s application
  • Founder mentality you need to have to run a supremely high paced business
  • Take on competition
  • Personal inspirations in life
  • Consumer market in India
  • Difference between India vs US markets
  • Focus while building a venture
  • Personal values to live by

    • It’s an episode that would leave you thinking and definitely in need to action immediately. It’s provocative in a calming sort of way.So sit, back and get your notes read, as you are now ready to enter, In The Haus.

    Conceptualised by Lights Out Studio

    Location Partner: WeWork IndiaBeverage Partner: Sleepy Owl; Lifestyle Partner: Neemans 

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    IN THE HAUSBy Saksham Mendiratta