Palicha: Radical candor is rare in the Indian startup ecosystem
Aadit Palicha · How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator · Apr 18, 2025 · at 20:13
Aadit Palicha, CEO of Zepto, discusses how Y Combinator's blunt feedback helped the founders realize their early pandemic metrics were not true product-market fit.
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“The push basically came from a lot of just like radical candor, right? And I think that you don't really find a lot of that, you know, candidly in, in India so far, which is why obviously YC was as valuable as it was”
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