Bajpai: ixigo hit 160 crore revenue and nearly $400M GMV in FY20
Aloke Bajpai · Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo · Nov 2, 2020 · at 5:16
Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder and CEO of travel platform ixigo, shares unpublished FY20 financial results right before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the travel industry.
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“So in FYI, and we haven't really published these yet, but in FYI, we grew to 160 crores in revenue with very negligible losses. In fact, we had a profitable for last quarter of the year, which was JFM 20, 20. And in terms of GMV, you know, we are we were very close to a four hundred million annualized GMV you know, at the time the year closed”
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