🚀 BazaarNow: Watch out for this company
Knew in about 15 minutes that we had to be the first backer of Priyanshu Jain.
Who I consider to be one of the true outliers, one of the more obsessive, first-principles thinking founders I have seen in my 15 years in venture.
We led the pre-seed just a few months back. Met on a Sunday, hours after we first got introduced.
Within a few months, Arjun, Tarithmay & Priyanshu have cracked something crazy: New habit creation + very promising economics + insane speed of execution
The problem they are addressing has an unbounded ceiling (if the team DNA is right) - a new retail channel for daily commerce
Consumers in Tier 1 urban India have experienced many retail formats: kiranas,
big basket organized retail,
specialist retail,
e-commerce formats,
and now quick commerce.
But go 50-100 kms out of any major city, to the real vastness of India (smaller cities) - and they haven’t really been given new retail experiences for daily needs, beyond a kirana.
Each of these is a growing economy yearning for the right combination of price, convenience and variety. This is a non-trivial problem to solve market by market…
Glad to be partnering with our friends @anshuprasher@sandeepmtandon@wb_capital at pre-seed and now @abhishek_mohan@peakxvpartners@sjs_day1
+ stellar angel investors including @viditaatrey (@Meesho_Official), @prashantsachan (@AppsForBharat), @Salujanitin (@Chaayos), Siddharth Gadia (@zeno_health) and Ayyappan R (@FirstClubIndia).
@AntlerIndia@AntlerGlobal@HimankAmar@mkt_not@telljeeves@GowriShankarNag@Bhavnasuresh@SirCribs_a_Lot
Thx @Goyal4Gagan for the kind connection
There's a generation of kids who have grown while suffering with RCB. We have been insulted and laughed at in schools, in neighborhood, among cousins.
It is our time, 17 years late, but it is finally our time.
@makemytripcare@makemytrip Horrible service . Not able to get to the customer care at all. App does not function as expected . You have made sure this is my last booking on MMT
@navkrish55@StarSportsIndia @DisneyPlusHS @sreesanth36@harbhajan_singh@RayuduAmbati You were great Navneeth! From the 12th man army of RCB to being on air at this great moment, you have come a long way! The feeling must have been next level to voice when Rahul Dravid lifted that trophy.
@Shravan_GA@caped_crusader9 Firstly, a great way of ranking. Why not add a weight on the strike rate based on the result of the match. For e.g Stubbs in 2024 is at the top but a lot of matches were lost. So it may add a flavor of impact as well.