4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So you had Naren on your Board for a while? Kashyap Deorah: Yes. I said, “I’ll go with Nexus if you’re on the Board. Would you have the bandwidth for me?” He said, “I have all the time in the world.” He actually lived that. I never felt short of time with him.

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What was the new idea? Kashyap Deorah: On-demand commerce was called hyperlocal. I was fascinated with the Stripe and Twilio API businesses. In retail and e-commerce, what shovels can I build? What became clear was on-demand commerce is about the ability to fulfill things right here right now. The proposition is ingrained in

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What was the name of this project? Kashyap Deorah: Chalo. Sramana Mitra: How long was that? Kashyap Deorah: We sold the company in less than a year. After the acquisition, some of us stayed at OpenTable. I left after two years. One important moment there was that OpenTable was a public company. That’s

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long into your independent journey did the acquisition happen? Kashyap Deorah: Three years. Sramana Mitra: Then you stayed at Future group for two more years? Kashyap Deorah: Correct. Sramana Mitra: In those later two years, did the business change? India was coming online at a very fast pace.

4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about that project – the one where we met. Kashyap Deorah: I was always inspired by the power of the internet to democratize disaggregated markets. One of the problems I saw was that not all the market participants get the same opportunity. Internet was not mainstream at that time.

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 1)

Kashyap had early success with three of his companies, each of which had very small amounts of friends and family financing. He pretty much bootstrapped these three startups to rapid exits. His fourth startup, HyperTrack, has been a challenging journey, but he has navigated it well, and turned around the earlier setbacks over the last

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