How two teens built an app worth $900 million — Zepto’s founders share three tips (via CNBCMakeIt)
Finding a good product-market fit is important, said Vohra. His advice on how to do that?
In the early days of Zepto, the 19-year-olds handled customer support themselves and delivered groceries to consumers just so that they could have a quick chat with them. "When we started this 12 months ago, every conversation we had was, 'You're totally out of your mind, this is never going to work,'" said Palicha."Kaivalya and I fell in love with the product so much that we just saw ourselves as custodians of what would probably end up being a large phenomenon in consumer internet in India," said Palicha.
Despite being just one of many businesses to join the instant commerce wave, it has caught the attention of investors. Its latest cash injection of $200 million in May brought Zepto one step closer to unicorn status.
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