The Neon Show Karthik Jagannathan on Starting up at age 50, Building Gallabox, India's favorite Whatsapp Solution & Company Culture in India Vs the US
Karthik Jagannathan, after working for more than two decades across cross-functional experience in Telecom and Internet businesses, with a specific focus on SMBs, decided to build a solution to help SMBs scale faster with Gallabox.
In today’s episode, Karthik shares the backstory of what led him to starting up at the age of 50, building something for SMBs, and more.
Notes -
01:36 - Serving a business like it's your own
04:10 - Where do the roots of ownership come from in his life?
06:27 - What other significant events in his life lead him to here today?
08:58 - Building and growing sustainably in crisis
12:06 - India wasn’t a place of - “Grow fast, Break fast.”
18:34 - Landscape out there in Small & Medium Businesses in India
24:33 - Zoho Sponsored – Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it?
26:44 - Zeroing down on an idea to solve for SMBs
36:22 - Leveraging Whatsapp with Gallabox
39:06 - Themes that he wanted to solve for
40:49 - Scaling to over 500+ business
49:39 - Learnings from their journey so far
51:50 - What helped them grow faster?
57:49 - Advice for entrepreneur building for SMBs
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