BigBasket
also referred to as: big basket · big baskets
59 statements across 13 episodes · 27 bullish · 2 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2019 by T. N. Hari · said 171 times in 33 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (72), Hari Menon (14), V.S. Sudhakar (13), T. N. Hari (9), Sanjeev Aggarwal (8), K. Ganesh (7), Vikas Nahar (6), Mohit Gulati (6)
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2025 26 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- 75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
- Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- #1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 26 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
- BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
- JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- $10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
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2023 28 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- Did Jio SAVE India, Bharat's BIGGEST FLAWS & Helping Indian Farmers | BigBasket Founder on Neon Show
- HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Building CaratLane to a 17000 Crore company and selling it to TATA with Founder Mithun Sacheti
- The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha
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2022 38 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
- How He Built India’s Largest Online Grocery Store? Ft. Hari Menon, Ceo & Co-Founder, BigBasket
- The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- How Meena Ganesh Built Portea, India's Leading Home Health Care with 150000+ Home Visits Every Month
- India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 22 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Sanjeev Aggarwal on 700 Crore IBM Exit and founding Helion & Fundamentum VC
- Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- Episode 54 | Rahul Chandra, Managing Director, Unitary Helion Fund
- Shailesh Ghorpade on Exfinity's journey to partner with the best SaaS startups of India
- Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- Mekin Maheshwari on Impact of COVID-19 on Small & Medium Enterprises and Startups
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2019 30 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
- How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- What is Founder DNA? Exaplains MamaEarth, Boat, Licious Investor, Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
- The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about BigBasket, oldest first
Jul 13, 2019
BigBasket HR meets every female hire within 24 hours regarding harassment rights
“The day a woman joins the HR head in the region in Nasik, wherever we are in, in Kochi, it could be in Kolkata, it could be in Pune, it could be in Lucknow. A woman joins, within 24 hours the HR head would meet her, tell her about her rights, tell her what rec…”
Jul 13, 2019 bullish
Sep 19, 2019
Fireside's first exit was vending machine startup Qwik 24's sale to BigBasket
“So we had one exit. The fund is only two years old, so a little early to talk about actual numbers, but we did have one exit which was a company called Quick 24. This was a vending machine business very interesting concept, which was acquired by Big Basket las…”
Feb 19, 2020 positive
Feb 19, 2020 bullish
Feb 19, 2020
Aggarwal: Helion succeeded in MakeMyTrip and BigBasket, struggled in high-friction physical businesses
“I think we've had a share of good investments like Make My Trip, Red Bus, Big Basket, Topper. We've had very good investments in outsourcing. We haven't done as well in some physical businesses where there's lot more friction.”
Mar 2, 2020 bullish
The three investment pillars behind Helion's early bet on BigBasket
“So big basket, I think there were three things. One was that the founding team had done two startups before. I think the kind of, ah, challenges in a hard business like grocery, we felt was best handled by a team which had been there, done that, right? So, I m…”
Mar 29, 2020 bullish
Gulati: BigBasket Is Built to Last and Outperforms Competitors
“So today would I say that Big Baskets a product which can, you know, be here to stay? Absolutely. In that space, you know, I don't want to name all the other guys, but You know, this has carved a niche so many miles above itself, above the others.”
Mar 29, 2020 positive
Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022 bearish
Menon: Delivering every grocery order in 10 minutes is structurally unprofitable
“Nobody can profitably deliver every order in 10 minutes. It's not possible. The network of dark stores you'll have to set up to do that is not profitable. So you will never be able to build a good unit economics based on only 10 minutes, which means all orders…”
Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Jun 21, 2022 neutral
Startups outgrow traditional venture capital upon reaching one billion dollars in sales
“The other more important reason that we did it is that we have reached a stage in our company at a billion dollars of sales. You need to now get strategics or you need to get piece because you at one point go out of this whole BC world because of the quantum o…”
Jun 21, 2022 neutral
Geopolitical tensions between India and China blocked Alibaba from funding BigBasket further
“So we had the first strategic that came in two years before in the form of Alibaba. Unfortunately, because of the, all the issues that were there with China and stuff like that, they couldn't make further investments.”
Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Jun 21, 2022 bullish
Jun 21, 2022 positive
BigBasket achieved CM3 and CM4 positive contribution margins around 2016 or 2017
“And the first thing we demonstrated five years back or six years back is to become CM positive. So we are not, we are profitable trade at CM three, CM four level, which is basically everything you sell. You're making money. You're not selling it at a loss.”
Jun 21, 2022 neutral
Jun 21, 2022 positive
BigBasket defines integrity as having the courage to admit ignorance to superiors
“For us integrity means the power to say no, which means that if I don't know something, if I'm able to sit in a meeting and say, sorry, I don't know it in front of people in front of his boss, I think we have achieved integrity, which means that I'm honest to …”
Jun 21, 2022
BigBasket founders refused to launch without raising substantial capital upfront
“And we told ourselves very clear that if this money doesn't come, we're not doing a kitchen garage startup. We're not doing that anymore. It doesn't work for us. It's too stressful. It's too painful. So we will raise that quality. If you don't, we will not do …”
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Jun 21, 2022 bullish
Menon claims BigBasket will be the only profitable quick-commerce grocery player
“The only one that's going to build a profitable model today is of us because it's not for us. It's an extension of our business, right? I've got the same DC, same supplier, same everything. My supply chain is just getting more and more loaded, which helps me g…”
Jun 21, 2022 neutral
Jun 21, 2022 neutral
Jun 21, 2022 bullish
Jun 21, 2022 positive
Aug 3, 2022 positive
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Sudhakar: Tata's acquisition of BigBasket closed without a single in-person meeting
“The crazy thing is, this is such a complex and a very large deal. And all of it happened without one meeting, because this is the time when COVID was just, right? Outstanding how a deal of this size we could do without actually meeting.”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Sudhakar: All older BigBasket business lines are order-profitable before HQ costs
“See, the good thing is all our businesses, especially the older businesses make money on a, If you take that business, you know, per order, I mean, it makes money at a, other than corporate costs, right? Everybody makes money. All the older businesses. That's …”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Oct 6, 2023 neutral
Oct 6, 2023
Oct 6, 2023
Sudhakar: Supplier leverage flips once a retailer reaches massive scale
“When the early days, you know, like I keep saying, like if you look at the top FMCG companies, you would go there, right? When you become reasonable size, somewhere you'll meet in between. Once you're very large, they come to you. So that's really what scale d…”
Oct 6, 2023
Sudhakar: Founders claiming success came purely from merit are fooling themselves
“Anybody who says, I've become successful purely on the basis of my merit alone, I think fooling themselves, because I think God has to be with you, and you have to have a lot of luck. Whether you call it luck, God, fate, whatever you want to call it, I think t…”
Oct 6, 2023
Oct 6, 2023
Oct 6, 2023 neutral
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Aug 16, 2024 neutral
Aug 23, 2024 positive
Ahluwalia: Tata Group typically buys 60-70% of acquisition targets, retaining founders
“For example, the Tata Group acquired, the Tata consumer acquired One MG, which is a digital pharmacy business, and they never do a hundred percent acquisition. They do 60, 70% acquisition. And let the 30% remain with the founders so that the founders can see t…”
Sep 28, 2024
Sep 28, 2024
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…”
Sep 28, 2024 positive
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…”
Sep 28, 2024
Sep 28, 2024
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…”
Sep 28, 2024 positive
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 …”
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Ganesh: Ascent Capital broke its mandate to invest in BigBasket
“Ascent Capital is a private equity fund. They have never done a, written the first check. They have never written in a startup check. They have not done an e-commerce company, focused primarily on real estate and infrastructure, large later stage ticket sizes,…”
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Jan 31, 2025 negative
Noel Tata Rejected BigBasket, Claiming Nobody Buys Groceries Online
“We went and met Noel Tata at that time. Trent. So for this, he said, listen, people will buy books and all the stuff, grocery, nobody's going to buy online. That is, those are his words. So he rejected investing in our business because we are looking for this.…”
Jan 31, 2025
Ganesh: Consumers Never Revert to Offline Buying After Experiencing Convenience
“Because when the consumer gets used to a certain convenience. He's not going to go back to buying offline. Okay. It's like asking you and me to go and stand in a train ticket counter to buy ticket. Ain't going to happen.”