It's surreal to think it all began in a tiny flat in Koramangala with the two of us, a dining table, and an idea we couldn't stop thinking about.
Back then, I had just returned from Japan, where I was working on high end camera systems at Sony. The tech was world class. But one question kept gnawing at me: Who was I building this for? More often than not, the answer didn't include the people I grew up around the ones who form the backbone of this country.
That question stayed with me.
When Vidit Aatrey and I started Meesho, we weren't chasing a market. It was more personal. We felt something was missing something that needed to be built for the many, not just the few. So we hit the road. Spoke to small sellers. Listened more than we talked. And slowly, a new path started to emerge.
We realised that if we could unlearn a few things and build with empathy, technology could shift the balance. So we did. And over time, that scrappy little idea became something much bigger, a platform millions rely on every single day.
As we mark this milestone, we took a moment to pause and reflect. And we did it in the most Meesho way possible by putting our own tech to work. Our AI voicebot, the same one that now speaks to customers across India interviewed us. It asked the questions. We just told the story.
We are 10 years in. Still learning. Still building. Still dreaming of what's next.
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