MobiKwik Was Bootstrapped for Its First Four Years
Bipin Preet Singh · How did Bipin Preet Singh Build a 540 Crore Fintech Product(Mobikwik), with 120M users? · May 11, 2022 · at 7:53
MobiKwik co-founder and CEO Bipin Preet Singh recounts the early founding years of MobiKwik operating out of a home apartment before raising institutional capital.
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“We were bootstrap for the first few years. You know, first three, four years.”
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