Sankar Bora is the Co-founder & COO, Dealshare, a social ecommerce startup in India, that has raised close to $400M in venture money from marquee investors such as Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global, Matrix India, Alteria Capital and WestBridge Capital. Prior to this, he co-founded Myntra in 2007, which was sold to Flipkart in 2010.

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Episode Notes:

1. Why entrepreneurship? (2:30 )


2. What gave Sankar the conviction to embark on the path of entrepreneurship (5:50 )


3. Early days of Mantra (10:32 )


4. A few mistakes made at Myntra (14:25 )


5. How to pick co-founders? (20:34 )


6. Learnings from building Myntra (22:50 )


7. Validating the thesis around Dealshare (27:50 )


8. What did Sankar get right about building Dealshare and early signs of success (33:45 )


9. Understanding the diversity of Indian customers


10. Nurturing consistency at Dealshare (43:25 )


11. What has entrepreneurship taught Sankar (46:20 )

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