Watch THIS Before You Begin Your Start-up Journey In India | Mukesh Bansal | Full Episode 

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In today's episode, we have Mukesh Bansal, founder Myntra and cult.fit on the Barbershop.
We talk about how he came back from Silicon Valley to run a startup in India, his journey with Myntra, the famous Flipkart acquisition, building cult.fit, his fitness secrets, and much more!
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00:00:00 A tease of what’s to come!
00:01:17 Intro
00:02:07 Travelling and imbalance of life
00:03:45 Fitness journey & starting cult.fit
00:06:17 Pressures from exiting behemoths
00:08:24 Evaluating the market for cult.fit
00:11:16 Going from insight to business
00:13:37 Experienced founder vs first-time founder
00:14:25 Achieving PMF by fracturing ribs
00:16:50 Initial days of building
00:19:02 First team behind cult.fit
00:20:15 0-1 journey post-acquisition
00:23:53 Did simplifying cult.fit take things away
00:26:29 Dealing with acquisitions
00:31:19 Merging cultures of acquisitions
00:34:57 Dealing with Covid shutdowns
00:42:12 Learnings from cure.fit
00:45:25 Solving operations is a HUGE task!
00:51:58 Shantanu’s insights on shaving
00:57:44 Entrepreneurship through listening to consumers
01:02:46 How did the Tata conversation happen?
01:10:07 Coming back to India in 2007
01:14:19 Initial idea behind Myntra
01:17:41 Figuring out PMF for Myntra
01:19:46 Growth of phones in India from 2011
01:21:16 How to build a team, and attract talent
01:24:46 Obsession with product
01:28:00 Driving mentorship from seniors
01:30:17 How did Myntra get acquired by Flipkart?
01:34:57 Mukesh’s personal journey in transitioning
01:36:19 Does Mukesh have sleepless nights?
01:37:46 Toughest time as an entrepreneur
01:40:53 What Mukesh would do differently at Myntra & cult.fit?
01:43:37 Building iconic companies
01:47:45 Takeaway for today’s entrepreneurs
01:52:37 Is this the golden generation of entrepreneurs?
01:55:09 Mukesh’s advice to the viewers
01:58:14 Concluding thoughts
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