Do Have Have Any Idea Of This UNTOLD Story Of India's UNICORN - Meesho? | Sanjeev Barnwal | FO 38 - Raj Shamani

In Today’s Episode of Figuring Out with Raj Shamani, we've Sanjeev Barnwal, the Co-founder and CTO of Meesho, the social commerce platform. He went to IIT-Delhi to complete his bachelor's. After completing IIT, he went to Japan. There he worked as a part of the Core Tech Team of Sony.

Sanjeev was happy at Sony and learned a lot during his time. But he couldn’t help feeling that he was supposed to establish his own business. And then he decided to develop something on his own with his batchmate Vidit Aatrey.

They originally started their business with FASHNEAR but the concept did not catch on. Meesho was born then. Meesho app essentially connects manufacturers to resellers. Manufacturers list their commodities on the Meesho shopping app, allowing merchants to choose from any of their products and sell them to customers using social networks like WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.

In merely 5 years Meesho reached the milestone of a $1 Billion Valuation. Meesho is the first company to get funding from Facebook.

In this episode of Figuring Out we discussed:

01 - The success story of Meesho

02 - How did meesho start?

03 - How to come up with a winning startup idea?

04 - Next big industry in India

05 - Job vs Startup and a lot more...

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