Sramana Mitra: One of the questions that comes out of that is what role do you have in showing or not showing products. Does that mean that you’re operating a marketplace of what brands influencers show? Cooper Harris: Yes, in a sense. It’s able to predict what product to show to whom. We are able
Sramana Mitra: I’d like to understand to what degree of certainty do you foresee the family offices that are working with you to be able to cover that capital need of going from $5 million to $15 million? Kanwaljit Singh: The interesting thing is that the private equity investors in India is a very large
Sramana Mitra: When you look around at the trends in your space, could you identify some open problems? If you were starting a company today, which problems would you go and solve and build a new company around? Rob Reid: First of all, all the easy problems in business have been solved. Reflecting a little
Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Cooper Harris: Hiring. We went out and we hired really fantastic folks. At first, you, as a founder, are forced to draw upon your own circles of awesome people you know. We were able to get one of the heads of design from Yahoo!. That was very cool. It allowed
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Sramana Mitra: In this case study, how many customers were they able to reach in an internet-only mode? Kanwaljit Singh: I think it’s in the thousands. You can build very interesting businesses, especially in the Indian context if you can reach a core community of consumers. We believe that the lifetime value of the consumer is
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Rob Reid: I’m going to start with a very mundane area, and then we’ll go all the way to the incredible. Today, a lot of our customers still do some things the old way. If you’re an accounts payable accountant, you’ll probably divide up all the people you’re going to pay alphabetically. You’re going to