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Zepto and its founders
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- 0:00Two 19-year-olds left Stanford to
- 0:01deliver groceries in 10 minutes. Their
- 0:03company is now worth $7 billion.
- 0:06Adit Palicha [music] and Kaivalya Vohra
- 0:08were at Stanford when the pandemic hit.
- 0:10In 2021, they dropped out and started
- 0:12Zepto in Mumbai. Everyone was stuck
- 0:14inside and groceries took hours or days.
- 0:17So, they promised 10 minutes. Tiny
- 0:19warehouses called dark stores in every
- 0:21neighborhood, riders on scooters, a
- 0:24countdown [music] on every order. By
- 0:262023, Zepto was a unicorn. By 2024, it
- 0:30was [music] worth over 5 billion. In
- 0:32October 2025, it raised $450 [music]
- 0:35million
- 0:36at a $7 billion valuation. 10 minutes,
- 0:39$7 billion.
- 0:41>> Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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