Vipul Parekh
Co-Founder and Board Member, BigBasket. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Vipul Parekh is a co-founder of BigBasket, an Indian online grocery platform founded in 2011 and acquired by Tata Digital. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Fabmart during the 1999 dot-com wave and served as an Investment Director at Peepul Capital.
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Parekh: Mercedes, Volvo, and BMW won't survive against Chinese EV makers
“If I were in a Mercedes or Volvo or you know BMW, I'd be very worried. These are brands aren't going to last.”
Parekh: India's top 30M households prioritize convenience over grocery prices
“So this,
Top 30 million market of India, which is thirty million households, which most people call India one, or what do you want to call it?
It is very, very international.
And this is not a value based market.
Grocery, if you look at it, the popular definit…”
Parekh: Unlike global trends, India's aging physical grocery stores lose profitability
“So the funny thing that happened in India was as stores became older, they became more unprofitable instead of becoming profitable, which is the reverse, which happens everywhere else in the world.
Because you amortize your costs, stores become more profitable…”
Parekh: China's delivery costs are 3x India's, making quick commerce unviable
“And the third factor which contributed is that we have the lowest manpower cost anywhere in the world.
Even China is three X more expensive, right?
In terms of cost per delivery, which is why quick commerce doesn't work even in China, because cost per delivery…”
Parekh: DMart will eventually reach the scale of Walmart
“The day India market reaches, D-Mart will be half the size of Walmart, or maybe the size of Walmart, right? So that's going to happen.”
Parekh: Tata Group doesn't pressure BigBasket for rapid quick commerce leadership
“They're not you know, let me put it this way very fussed about what is the rate of growth and how soon will you become number one? And why shouldn't you be the largest in quick commerce and all of that? I think that their focus is build a good brand. Let's mak…”
Parekh: India won't build a tech giant for another 15 years
“So whether we'll get a Microsoft, Google, or we'll get a generative AI startup in India, I don't know, or something else which will happen, but it's not going to happen in the next five years. But it'll probably, you think the probability of that happening in …”
Parekh: Startups will contribute $2T-$5T to India's future economy
“A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Right. Think of these the top 10 companies today itself. And if you add up their market cap and even today and experience, assume that this will grow up five X, 10 X over the next 10 years, that's the minimum that you woul…”
Parekh: Dark store revenue expansion requires market share or new categories
“A dark store becomes profitable when you get a significant share of revenue on the dark store. From your catchment area, right? And your costs are therefore covered. Now, beyond a point, you have a catchment area. Retail store also has a catchment area. Beyond…”
Parekh: Quick commerce market share in major areas has stabilized
“I think the market share part of it has now, at least in the most popular areas is sort of stabilized. Everybody's got their market share. Market share movements are going to be very hard to come by, but I think there is still a lot of scope in terms of what n…”
Parekh: BigBasket will fully pivot into a single quick commerce company
“We will actually essentially just transform into a completely a quick commerce company. We're not going to have two businesses like we have today, because I think the writing is on the wall.”
Parekh: A failed acquisition delayed BigBasket's quick commerce launch by seven months
“In this particular case, we were actually pursuing an acquisition brilliantly for us and for that company. And we thought it was a done deal. And that cost us about six months, seven months. And if that had happened, it would have been a very different story t…”
Parekh: Eight to ten key operational metrics determine grocery business health
“For example, in our business, the key metrics are, what is your average order value? What is your gross margin? What is your NPS? What is your rate of return? What is your write-off? What is your you know orders per dark store? Right. All of this what is your …”
Parekh: BigBasket holds 10% to 12% quick commerce market share
“We would have about 10 to 12% market share.”
Parekh: Quick commerce is transitioning into horizontal e-commerce
“Quick commerce is really transitioning to becoming horizontal commerce with high frequency categories as the lead player. So that gets the customer in, grocery gets the customer in, then you sell everything else.”
Parekh: Passive VCs lose context on startups without continuous founder updates
“The problem that a VC has, he's anyway a passive investor. He doesn't know, can't learn your business well enough. And if you give him a quarterly update, by the time he figures out what your business is again, and refreshes his memory, that meeting is over. S…”
Parekh: India 1 demographic will reach 50 million in three years
“India one is not 30. It will become 50 in another two, three years. India two is not 70. It will become 120.”
Parekh: BigBasket held board reviews every 15 days for two years
“One of the first things we did when we started the big basket was we said, we'll have a 15 day board review. So you used to do, and for the first two years, I think we did a board review every 15 days. For the six, seven years of, I mean, till I think Tata's c…”
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