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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Were you more vulnerable to these kinds of conversation and now you are more aware because you have an ecosystem around you?
A Hundred percent. Right. And I'm not talking about seven years ago. I'm talking about seven years ago, five years ago, even when I moved back to India. Right. Um, I think that what I have learned is there is going to be noise. Uh, now you have to preserve your energy. Yeah. You have to decide what you want to react to. You can't fight everything. And there is this little activist in me at all given points. And I think that's with age after a point, you realize you cannot fight every battle and it is not yours to fight. Um, yeah. So I think now I fight the battles that matter to me. Uh, I don't want to change everybody's thinking, you know, like, yeah, it'll happen over time. I think as we do it, it'll happen.
AI assessment note: “Hundred percent. Right.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q And how, how are you trying to attend club trying to work with it?
A So we've just gotten on like two weeks ago. I think my conversation again was, it was too early last year because we needed to consolidate and bring it under one brand. As soon as we did that, we of course got onto ONDC through, um, we are not a direct network partner, but through a network partner onto ONDC. But I think we've had a very honest conversation saying home is a very new category. Yeah. Uh, I mean, it's so new that a flip card today is trying to say, hey, you know, we're going to double down and bet on this category because it is the future. There is, there is a lot of complexity with home, right? Logistics has to get built. So I think it's a slow process. But if you look at what's happening in this category, whether it's quick commerce is definitely starting to get into it. So if you start looking at The swiggies of the world, they do have a home category now, because it is an important category. So I think it is the start of the spike, and ONDC still is very early, and they've also told us that baby steps, we're still really focused on groceries, and then maybe a little bit more of lifestyle, and then it kind of gets into the other categories.
AI assessment note: “we of course got onto ONDC through, um, we are not a direct network partner”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Got it. And you returned, you ran a business in Philippines and returned back to India, right? Uh, what made you, was it emotional decision or was, was it a, uh, decision based on the market size that, that you came back to India?
A So we sold Lamudi. I think going into Lamudi, I was very sure that we were building to get acquired, right? It was a distressed asset that needed to be turned around and sold for every stakeholder to make money. We had a timeline in mind. All of it was met, right? Um, I'd said three, I'd said I'll take one year at a time. I stayed for four, four and a half years at that place. Um, We got stuck in COVID. I think as soon as the acquisition happened, Varun and I tried traveling. We got stuck. We could never go back home. Um, Tent Club was, like I said, it came to me. It was not something that I dreamt up. It came as an opportunity and I spent time evaluating it as an opportunity When it was, when it came to me, I evaluated it for India. So I think it was not, it was not gut. It was not emotional. It was very, it was very calculated. Yeah.
AI assessment note: “it was not, it was not gut. It was not emotional. It was very calculated.”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q A thousand crore business can be a lifestyle business, right? If growing 10%, 15% year on year.
A See, I don't, I, I, you know, I, I, I don't know, right? I, I don't think I'm a lifestyle business kind of person. I'm too restless for that. Um, so I, I think the answer is, When I got into this, I think the way we kind of structured our cap table and I went to fireside ventures who are consumer focused, um, investors who, who are marketers and I'm not a marketer. Right. And I had a very honest conversation with them and I said, y'all know that it takes time. Uh, we're trying to do something in a category that is not, it's not yet there. The infliction point is As India goes from a three, three and a half trillion economy to the 10 trillion economy, this is where boom is going to happen, right? People start spending and people start consuming and people care about how their houses are, but it's a long journey till there. Um, so for me, I'm like, hey, if you're here to be here five, 10 years and mean it, then I'm the entrepreneur to back. But if you're going to make me grow this 80, a hundred, a hundred percent year on year, I don't think it's possible. Um, I think it just puts very wrong measures and we all face it, right? Every time we have to go raise capital and it is important. You have these weird like metrics that you have to chase. I think it makes the foundation very weak. So my answer is we are all here to build a really, really large outcome, but I am very clear that…
AI assessment note: “I don't think I'm a lifestyle business kind of person. I'm too restless”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q But this is like, what is happening in India, right? The cricket and everything else. What's about the global thing? How are they impacting?
A See, I do think, I don't think it's just consumption, right? It's also everybody's looking at unit economics a little bit more. Everybody is looking at profitability and cash flow a little bit more. It's public information that even marketplaces are kind of having serious, for the first time, serious conversations about money, logistics, right? So I think it's bringing a different kind of discipline in sellers and brands, but it's also kind of I do think there's a little controlled spending at the value level, right? Uh, if you look at numbers, I think the super wealthy and the luxury segment is doing really well. Like, like luxury car sales are out of whack. But there is a little bit of fear, right? There is, in today's connected world, people are listening, hearing, like they are, there is a recession talk everywhere. There is no sign of it where there is a conversation.
AI assessment note: “in today's connected world... there is a recession talk everywhere.”
Not addressed raw tape
D 2 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.00
Q Yeah. And, but how many, uh, companies that you have bought in different categories?
A So I think that was the biggest piece that I really, um, you know, I said this two years ago, then I kept quiet. Then I think last year I only spoke to Shantanu once and I told him this wild idea and he said, you're crazy. And then I kept quiet. And I think this year, just about three weeks ago, we pulled it off. Right. Uh, we basically said, We bought all these businesses and labels, right? It's almost distribution in our head, right? Because we wanted to buy it. We bought 8000 SKUs day one of operations, no experience doing this. So day one, we had 8000 SKUs with us, no systems, no data, no processes, legacy warehouses. We learned how to run them slowly and optimize it. We picked 200 of them. That's that. That's it, right? We took the 200 and we moved it into brandtenclubhomes.com and everything else we kind of side, kind of killed slowly. The 200, we found a way to kind of deepen it, fix quality, fix aesthetic, fix packaging, be very sure that this is what The consumer ones. And only then we found a way to kind of stamp 10 club homes on it like a certification. And now we're taking these 200 products as close to the customer, which is through our website, through stores, through everything, right? So that's the journey. So
AI assessment note: “We bought all these businesses and labels, right? It's almost distribution in our head”
