The Indian Startup Show Where are they now? Vineet Rajan Co-founder of Scout My Trip on pivoting, new insights on the India travel market , growing 5x , expanding into S.E Asia, using virtual scouts & life changing road trips!
This is an exciting new feature called Where Are They Now ? I catch up with previous guests who came on the show. I catch up With Vineet Rajan the co-founder of Scout My Trip India’s first subscription-based travel planner powered by local travel experts. He gives us an update on what’s been happening since I last spoke to him over 2 years ago including being recognised as being of the top 50 startups to watch in india. Talks about expanding into SouthEast Asia. He explains why they pivoted and now use virtual scouts, talks about raising $500k, talks about content marketing strategies , talks about hot new destinations in india you should visit , talks about a life changing trip to Ladakh and finally he talks about eating ghost chillies in North East India and his second wife latitia(his bike!)
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Growing 5x since 2018
- A phenomenal 2019 winning 6+ awards
- Offline marketing strategies
- Business Travel market
- Working with Honda
- Climate change & sustainable travel
- Great story how he met his co-founder on the highway
- Great road trips
- Being a startup guy and his co-founder being a corporate guy
- Consumer mindset in india
- Income Tax Exemption granted under Startup India Programme
- How they use virtual scouts
- Using AI in the future
- Being trapped in the snow for 20hrs!
and much much more!
https://scoutmytrip.com/
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