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Bhushan: Goyal and Majety will replace Tata and Reliance as role models
“I think, 50 years from now, we'll not talk about Reliance Starter. We'll probably talk about Dipinder and Harsha. I hope that happens, but they would be the next role model.”
Garg: Zomato can reach a $300B to $500B market cap
“Swiggy may exist, but Swiggy may be a, again, a very large company, a fifty, hundred billion dollar company, but Zomato can be a 304 105 hundred billion dollar company.”
Khare: Tech M&A Requires Multiple Local $20B+ Buyers to Take Off
“My view is that M&A really gets going when you have multiple companies that are worth more than twenty billion dollars that are, that end up being buyers. And we don't have that. Maybe Zumaito is the first one. There might be a couple of others in tech that ge…”
Sethi: Emerging market consumer distrust forces companies to become conglomerates
“In emerging markets, consumers are not willing to trust companies, and so you have to build a brand to a certain size and scale, and then they'll start enabling trust to be able to try multiple products. It's why you see so many companies like a la Zomato, not…”
Policybazaar and Zomato would have succeeded without Info Edge's backing
“So, actually, if you're telling me policy will succeed because of us, that's not true. They were going to succeed anyway, yeah. We are fortunate we went in. Likewise for Zomato.”
Ahluwalia: Zomato could become a $100B company in the near future
“I can think Zomato could become a hundred billion dollar company, not very far away.”
Garg: Zomato will steal market share when Swiggy raises money this year
“They will have to go this year to raise money. And whenever that happens, Zomato will again take market share away.”
Lunia: Most Indian tech unicorns remain capped at $1B to $2B valuations
“I mean, even companies like Nica, PTM, Zomato, they have still remained in even by and large, a single digit billion outcome. And these are horizontals. They're not a lot of them. Most other unicorns also are in the one or two billion range.”
Zomato and Swiggy reported Chaayos retention is unheard of
“We hear from Zomato and Swiggy that the kind of repeat behaviors and retentions that we have for this business is pretty much unheard of in, in in any kind of delivery space.”
Delivery workers are in as much demand as top Google tech talent
“Delivery boys, especially bikers are in hot demand. They are in as much demand as the best tech folks that join companies like Google.”
Kompalli: Edtech's primary competitors are consumer inertia, Netflix, and Zomato
“So I think when we started, the biggest challenge was not competition. I would say even right now, the biggest challenge is not competition. So let me give you an example, right? So let's say we had, we got a hundred leads. Let's say one person joined. We had …”
Banglani: Venture capital returns depend on deal access before deal analysis
“Unlike many other asset areas, the one important thing in venture is that not everyone has equal access. I might be smart enough to recognize the next Zomato, But if the founder of the next Zomato is not coming to pitch to me, I'll make exactly zero dollars fr…”
Siddhartha: Blinkit accounts for over half of Zomato's $20B valuation
“When Zomato acquired Blinkit, the share went down. Almost the company valuation went down to four billion dollars. Today, they say the Blinkit occupies more than ten billion dollars in Zomato's valuation of twenty billion.”
Siddhartha: Zomato, Flipkart, Paytm, and Zepto will reach $100B public valuations
“I'm most excited about these companies like Zomato, Flipkart, Paytm, and more of the companies that have Zepto, to reach a hundred billion dollar valuation mark in India on public markets. Okay. Once we reach that, we'll see, like Sky has the ambition for the …”
Siddhartha: India has over two million gig delivery workers across major platforms
“There are currently more than two million delivery boys in India across platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, Blinkit. Zepto. Big basket. 20 lakh delivery boys or girls.”
Info Edge Sold Early Partial Secondaries in Zomato and PolicyBazaar
“We have exited Zomato a bit.
When Ant Financial came in, because Ant said we want a secondary.
A little bit.
We're supporting the company.
Likewise, in Policy Bazaar, we exited a bit.
Early on.”
Info Edge Solo-Funded Zomato for Four Rounds Before Sequoia Capital Joined
“We were actually solo for the first four rounds. Not first, first four rounds. Fifth round when Sequoia came in.”
Venture-Backed B2C Unicorns Drove 80% of Exotel's Early Revenue
“70%, 80% of our revenues were still coming from. On the back of a venture capital enabled companies in the B to C space. So we were really supporting Flipkart and Ola, Uber and Swiggy and Zomato and all of these guys.”
Goel: Deepinder Goyal wrote a personal angel check before Zomato invested
“DP put in an angel check at that time just to, just so we could be in touch and then post that as we started raising around, you know, and then I think things just transpired, you know, they just sort of one thing led to another. And they said like, we're happ…”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip was the first pure internet company to IPO in 2021
“So to be honest, there was no internet company, which went public in year, 2018, 19, 20. We were the first company, which went public in year, 20, 21. All right. Internet company, first internet pure internet company to go public in year, 20, 21. Then came Zom…”