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E123: Sankar Bora (Co-founder & COO, Dealshare)

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Sankar Bora is the Co-founder & COO, Dealshare, a social ecommerce startup in India, that has raised close to $400M in venture money from marquee investors such as Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global, Matrix India, Alteria Capital and WestBridge Capital. Prior to this, he co-founded Myntra in 2007, which was sold to Flipkart in 2010.

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Episode Notes:

  1. Why entrepreneurship? (2:30)
  2. What gave Sankar the conviction to embark on the path of entrepreneurship (5:50)
  3. Early days of Mantra (10:32)
  4. A few mistakes made at Myntra (14:25)
  5. How to pick co-founders? (20:34)
  6. Learnings from building Myntra (22:50)
  7. Validating the thesis around Dealshare (27:50)
  8. What did Sankar get right about building Dealshare and early signs of success (33:45)
  9. Understanding the diversity of Indian customers
  10. Nurturing consistency at Dealshare (43:25)
  11. What has entrepreneurship taught Sankar (46:20)

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Social Links:

Dealshare on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dealshareindia

Sankar on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/SankarBora6

Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesi_vc

Akash Bhat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhatvakash

Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedesivc

Akash Bhat on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bhatvakash

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Sankar Bora is the Co-founder & COO, Dealshare, a social ecommerce startup in India, that has raised close to $400M in venture money from marquee investors such as Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global, Matrix India, Alteria Capital and WestBridge Capital. Prior to this, he co-founded Myntra in 2007, which was sold to Flipkart in 2010.

. . .

Episode Notes:

  1. Why entrepreneurship? (2:30)
  2. What gave Sankar the conviction to embark on the path of entrepreneurship (5:50)
  3. Early days of Mantra (10:32)
  4. A few mistakes made at Myntra (14:25)
  5. How to pick co-founders? (20:34)
  6. Learnings from building Myntra (22:50)
  7. Validating the thesis around Dealshare (27:50)
  8. What did Sankar get right about building Dealshare and early signs of success (33:45)
  9. Understanding the diversity of Indian customers
  10. Nurturing consistency at Dealshare (43:25)
  11. What has entrepreneurship taught Sankar (46:20)

. . .

Social Links:

Dealshare on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dealshareindia

Sankar on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/SankarBora6

Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesi_vc

Akash Bhat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhatvakash

Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedesivc

Akash Bhat on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bhatvakash

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