Saahil Goel - Enabling Ecommerce in India - [Return on India, EP.03]

My guest today is Saahil Goel, founder and CEO of Shiprocket. Over the last decade, a number of startups that have reached escape velocity in India have followed the X for Y startup model. They've taken influence from something that works in the US and western markets, and applied it to India. The next generation of winners will build Native India use cases, and Shiprocket is a perfect example. The business started out as Shopify for India and eventually pivoted to an e-commerce logistics aggregator when they realized the underlying infrastructure that made Shopify successful in the west didn't exist in India. Fast forward and Shiprocket is one of the fastest-growing and most well-positioned technology companies in India today. We discuss how to build for India from India, how to capture value from India's long-tail merchant segment, which is over 60 million businesses, and the common headline pitfalls investors fall into when evaluating startups in India. Please enjoy my conversation with Saahil Goel. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Return On India is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Return On India, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.

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Saahil Goel - Enabling Ecommerce in India - [Return on India, EP.03] is an episode from Return on India by Dominic Cooke.

This episode is 61:51 long.

This episode was published on Dec 15, 2022.

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