What an amazing journey @Flyingfurindia has been!
Flying Fur as a concept came to my brother Lakkshya Sawhney in October 2015 with a couple of his friends and he called me from the car saying that I have this crazy idea and I want to meet you to understand whether it makes any sense to do it. While he was on the way to meet me , he already got inspired by the Bentley Flying Spur (Big car buff) and bought the domain name for Flying Fur before we could even brainstorm the idea.
We did a couple of meetings and decided to take this forward. He was super quick with the ideation and the execution and we had the first mobile grooming salon in Delhi ready for operations in March 2016 (I remember driving the truck from Panchsheel Enclave to Kalkaji).
I helped him with his business during the first 6 months and found him his business partner and current life partner :) and then decided to join him in December 2016 when we bought our second grooming vehicle.
The 7-8 years that I have spent with Lakkshya Sawhney and then later Akshay Gupta joining us have been the most rewarding in terms of helping me understand every small intricacy of running and building a business in India.
The number of excel sheets I have made for Flying Fur with different business models from COCO to FOCO to Leasing to understanding how to sell a franchise and build a brand to bringing technology in operations and managing employees to taking the business to Shark Tank India - Flying Fur was my MBA!
With a successful and satisfying exit, the onus to scale Flying Fur to its true potential lies with Lakkshya, Akshay, Jessica and Aashna.
All the best guys!!! This has been amazing!!!
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