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Pitti: VC money dried up in travel because funded startups failed to deliver returns
“See, eventually one day for, I can speak for my industry, my travel industry, the money has dried up. The VC money has dried up just because none of the players have successfully delivered the value. To the VCs, to the PEs, to the banks.”
Pitti: IIT Graduates Are More Risk-Averse Than NIT and BITS Peers
“Most of the IITians are actually risk adverse people. I mean, we studied way too hard to get into IIT, right? So, and I value people from bits. I value people from NITs because they didn't study that hard. They're not that risk adverse people. They didn't stud…”
Pitti: VC funding will dry up for commoditized internet sectors over the next decade
“For the next decade, I'm seeing that the same thing will happen for a lot of internet companies, which are almost commoditized in nature.”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip stayed profitable without convenience fees while rivals lost money
“Our unit economics is so strong that even, even pandemic could not you know, we are so resilient that even pandemic could not make us a loss making company. That, that I think is the biggest mode, and because we are so, so robust, we are so capital efficient, …”
EaseMyTrip: Zero convenience fees since 2011 drove company growth
“In year, 2011, when we opened up ourselves to regular consumers, We didn't just, we didn't charge conveniences when we, and we still stick back to that policy and because of which the company has grown to where it is.”
EaseMyTrip aims to become India's largest travel portal within two years
“We are the second largest travel portal right now. And in the next couple of years, we are looking forward to change the status again.”
Pitti: Hiring From MakeMyTrip or Cleartrip Won't Solve EaseMyTrip's Problems
“Hiring somebody from Make My Trip, Clear Trip, Yatra, they're not going to help solve the problems which we are solving or the kind of structure which we have.”
EaseMyTrip started with 5-10 lakh INR, never raised VC/PE/bank money
“We probably put in about five to 10 lakh rupees to start the business. And the business is still bootstrapped. In the last 13 years of running, we have never raised any money either from VC or PE or a bank.”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip is India's second-largest and fastest-growing travel company
“So that is how the company is not only just the second largest, but we are also one of the fastest growing travel companies in India right now.”
Pitti: Most OTAs charge 300 to 500 rupees per passenger in convenience fees
“Most of the OTs are charging anywhere between 300 to 500 rupees per passenger as convenience fees.”
EaseMyTrip grew over 60% annually from 2015 to 2020
“So from 2015 till 2020, there was no year where our business did not grow by more than 60%.”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip used 70-80 crore INR in reserves to pre-refund customers
“So we dipped ourselves with the we dipped our cash reserves by about 70 to 80 crores. And we gave consumers money even before airlines gave us the money.”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip's B2C segment accounts for 93% of business
“And now our consumer business is 93% business and travel agent business is only seven percent.”
EaseMyTrip had ~11,000 travel agents and broke even by year 3
“At the end of the third year, you know, we had almost about 11,000 travel agents who were using us business was growing, but that business wasn't profitable. It was barely breaking even.”
Pitti: B2C expansion lifted EaseMyTrip margins to 5-6% without raising costs
“As soon as we shifted from B to B to B to C you know the operations did not change by much. Our operations remained the same, but however, the profitability increased dramatically. Just because, you know, now our margins are no longer one and a half to two per…”
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…”
EaseMyTrip stopped pre-IPO funding wires to delay its March 2020 listing
“And you know, on sixth of March, 20 20, I remember calling all those investors myself and saying that, Hey, something big is coming. And it's better that we put our IPO plan to indefinite position because, you know we were also planning to raise some pre IPO m…”
Pitti: EaseMyTrip's booking volume halved to ~2,200 crore INR in FY21
“The company did business of about 4400 crores in FI-Twenty. Okay. Now that business fell to half in FI-Twenty-One. Our business you know, came to almost 2122 hundred crores. In FYI, thanks to the pandemic, right? The business volume went to half.”