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Kamath: Amazon India grew just 5% in 2023 while Flipkart grew 7-8%
“Amazon India grew by just about five percent this year. Flipkart seven, eight percent based on higher end electronics and premiumization, which seems to be growing.”
Nikhil Kamath Oct 7, 2023 ▶ 48:14 Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath
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Narayanan: Private brands grew to 30% of sales, driving Myntra's profitability
“And the private brand business of Myntra at the same time also went from seven, eight percent to call it almost 30%, which is what drove profitability. So we were among the most profitable pieces of the Flipkart ecosystem, not amongst, we were the most profita…”
Ananth Narayanan Oct 7, 2023 ▶ 6:54 Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath
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Mukesh Bansal: Myntra Became India's Largest Fashion Retailer Before Flipkart Merger
“I think in three, four years, we were the largest fashion retailer in the country. 20 14 merged with Flipkart.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 3:55 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
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Kumar: Flipkart started as a proprietorship to get a payment gateway
“By the way, when I joined, it was not even a company, it was a proprietorship. Because I didn't get a payment gateway online. So Sachin, father was a trader in, in, in, in Punjab Chandigarh. So he has some balance sheet where he will get the city avenue. That'…”
Sujeet Kumar May 7, 2023 ▶ 27:34 Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Biyani: Future Group launched FutureBazaar.com around the same time as Flipkart
“We started FutureBazaar when, FutureBazaar.com and Flipkart had, along the same time. ... Around the same time, 2008, nine, yeah.”
Kishore Biyani May 7, 2023 ▶ 42:08 Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath
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