In 2009, when everyone was talking about Flipkart in Bengaluru, the new startup on the block that was doing a revenue of Rs 1 crore a month, a young IIT graduate was on the verge of shutting down his social media marketing platform called YouthPad in Gurgaon.
After running his first venture YouthPad for two years (2008-2010), Ankit Nagori decided to shut down due to the paucity of talent, no investors, and low internet adoption. “That’s when I realised the best thing then was to join a young startup,” says Nagori, who reached out to Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal and

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