Sramana Mitra: Explain the Zomato business model that you think is going to scale. Rehan Yar Khan: Zomato occupies premium mindshare when it comes to food. From that, you can develop several monetization levers. Some of them get switched on. The older ones like Yelp is where you monetize listings. Newer ones involve food orders
Sramana Mitra: How do you analyze Flipkart in that context? Has Flipkart gone on to build this whole distribution and logistics infrastructure, which is not asset-light at all? Rehan Yar Khan: Flipkart is not as asset-heavy as building channel stores. It’s not as asset-light as Snapdeal. It does have some backend, but the entire frontend
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Rehan Yar Khan was recorded in September 2016. Rehan Yar Khan is General Partner at Orios Venture Partners, and an early investor in the Indian startup scene. Rehan’s core focus is on the Indian
The entrepreneur ecosystem in India is growing by leaps and bounds. Still, almost all of those who apply for funding are rejected, and it’s not always because they don’t have viable products or services. Often, entrepreneurs get rejected because they pitched to the wrong investor. An entrepreneur with an e-commerce company should not be pitching