Jagannathan: Sulekha served roughly 75,000 SMBs in India at its peak
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Karthik Jagannathan reflects on his prior operating experience leading SMB initiatives at Indian digital platform Sulekha.
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“So at some point, in fact, at the peak, we would have served about 75,000 SMBs in India, right?”
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