Acharya: Zetwerk's business is mostly one-off purchases per site
Amrit Acharya · Zetwerk founder on Pivoting, Funding and Building a Manufacturing Unicorn ft. Amrit Acharya · Oct 4, 2021 · at 19:03
Amrit Acharya is the co-founder and CEO of Zetwerk, an Indian B2B managed manufacturing platform. He is responding to an inquiry regarding customer repeat behavior for manufacturing infrastructure components.
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“Bulk of what we do is what we call one-off purchase. structurally the same product that same customer may not need, or the same customer may need the same product in a different geography. So what happens is repeat for us is at a customer level for the same product in the same geography, that combination, that repeat is unlikely because as I said, somebody has built a factory.”
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