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▶ 9:00 · $ZEPTO · Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables
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Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables

2026-05-19 · 1 company · 4 thematic
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aadit palicha

Co-founded Zepto at age 17 with Kaivalya Vohra; dropped out of Stanford to build India's largest quick commerce grocery platform, now employing 200,000+ people with millions of daily orders.

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“we saw a 10x. Like the one neighborhood where we were doing a dark store versus all the other neighborhoods that we were doing just mom and pop shop delivery the one area where we were doing it from a dark store had three, four times the v…”
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