Aatrey: Only 1M to 1.5M of India's 60M small businesses sell online
Vidit Aatrey · Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath · May 7, 2023 · at 1:44:45
Vidit Aatrey, co-founder of Meesho, discusses the potential addressable market for ONDC and the low digital merchant penetration in India.
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“Very, very India has about sixty million small businesses, about million, million and a half only sell anything online.”
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