E123: Sankar Bora (Co-founder & COO, Dealshare)

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Sankar Bora is the Co-founder & COO, Dealshare, a social ecommerce startup in India, that has raised close to $400M in venture money from marquee investors such as Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global, Matrix India, Alteria Capital and WestBridge Capital. Prior to this, he co-founded Myntra in 2007, which was sold to Flipkart in 2010.

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Episode Notes:

1. Why entrepreneurship? (2:30)
2. What gave Sankar the conviction to embark on the path of entrepreneurship (5:50)
3. Early days of Mantra (10:32)
4. A few mistakes made at Myntra (14:25)
5. How to pick co-founders? (20:34)
6. Learnings from building Myntra (22:50)
7. Validating the thesis around Dealshare (27:50)
8. What did Sankar get right about building Dealshare and early signs of success (33:45)
9. Understanding the diversity of Indian customers
10. Nurturing consistency at Dealshare (43:25)
11. What has entrepreneurship taught Sankar (46:20)

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