Kumar: E-Commerce Tech Investment Over 15 Years Focused on Backend Systems
Sujeet Kumar · Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath · May 7, 2023 · at 1:17:24
Sujeet Kumar, co-founder of Udaan, discusses the historical focus of e-commerce technology infrastructure investments with Nikhil Kamath and Kishore Biyani.
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“Most of the evolution and sir will agree, has happened technology on backend, rationalizing the technology for applications like what to give to consumers, like pricing search, things like the rescue search, cataloging, things like that. All those investments has happened in last 15 years. I can at least say that.”
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