Aadit Palicha

Co-Founder and CEO, Zepto · 1 appearance on the record.

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Aadit Palicha co-founded Zepto with Kaivalya Vohra in 2021 after leaving Stanford University, scaling it into one of India's largest quick-commerce delivery platforms. As CEO, he has led the grocery network to unicorn status with backing from Y Combinator and other institutional investors.

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4 assertions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Palicha: Zepto reached over 5,000 crore INR sales in 24 months

“And yeah, from July, 21 to today, like about 24 months, went from about zero to like today north of 5000 crores in sales.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 17:28 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said10 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Palicha: Most Zepto dark stores are currently profitable

“You know, to be honest with you, most of our stores make money today.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 1:18:09 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Palicha: Zepto reached over 5,000 crore INR sales in 24 months

“And yeah, from July, 21 to today, like about 24 months, went from about zero to like today north of 5000 crores in sales.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 17:28 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Insight

Palicha: Despite dropping out, I advise students to stay in college

“Like, to be honest with you, like, if I was, like, I would actually, like, most people ask me, okay, you know, you guys dropped out of college. Should we drop out of college? I say, no, don't drop out of college. Like, stay in college.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 1:40:14 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

What-if

Palicha: Zepto wouldn't exist without his intensely competitive school environment

“I don't think I would have even tried to do what I'm trying to do right now. If it wasn't for that, like, somewhat, and I agree with you, somewhat, like, semi-toxic, like, aggressive line of sight.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 1:50:34 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Palicha: Contrary Capital invested $50k in Zepto at $2.5M valuation

“So he, so they, so he gave us basically a 50 K USD at a two and a half million valuation.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 11:09 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Disclosure

Palicha: Zepto co-founders retain about 25% combined equity

“I mean, so the two of us own about 25%.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 20:16 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Disclosure

Palicha: Zepto dark store rent is only 1% to 1.5% of sales

“So rent as a percentage of sales for us is nothing. It's one and a half percent. So the fixed cost base is so low because of how much throughput that we've been able to do within the same store because of how, like how much customer demand we see in the way th…”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 20:37 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Palicha: Quick commerce accounts for roughly 0.3% of Indian grocery retail

“To give you the exact number, it would be like about today collectively .3% of grocery.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 1:17:32 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Palicha: Kirana Cart scaled to 300 orders daily within 40 days

“So, by within 30 days of launching, 30 to 40 days, we got to about 300 orders a day.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 13:36 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Insight

Palicha: Shorter delivery distances unlock higher throughput per courier

“The lower your distance per delivery, you actually get into this positive flywheel where you're delivering faster and the lower your distance per delivery, you actually do more throughput per delivery partner.”

Aadit Palicha Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 16:03 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Ep #10 \| WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Ka	Sep 20, 2023	27m

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