Zepto's delivery times seem inconsistent, suggesting a possible marketing tactic rather than reflecting the actual delivery speed.  P.S. Zepto's dark store is 1km away from my place, there is no tr...

Zepto's delivery times seem inconsistent, suggesting a possible marketing tactic rather than reflecting the actual delivery speed.

P.S. Zepto's dark store is 1km away from my place, there is no traffic too.

Zepto's delivery time fooling us.

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I had heard Waycool was also talking to raise at unicorn valuation, but they've fired like 300 people on Monday, so that's pretty uncertain. What to make of Zepto, though?

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Hi folks, 

I'm Aadit, Co-Founder & CEO at Zepto. We're one of India's fastest growing consumer internet companies and are today present across 10+ cities in the country. 

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Zepto, my thoughts on the quick commerce space, organization building, amongst other things.

Ask away!

I'm Aadit Palicha, Co-Founder & CEO at Zepto. Ask me anything!

Hey @Aadit  
I’m @salt  
  
Some questions from my side: 
1. As companies scale there are many diverging opinions on how things should run. How do you ensure that the best ideas drive the company even though they might be in direct conflict with your point of view?  
  
2. What kind of impact have you seen via use of Machine Learning to streamline operational efficiency wrt initial benchmarks? 
  
3. What is the key focus area that you are currently working on? 
  
4. How do you balance creating shareholder value versus customer value?

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The timing of Zeptos fundraise is significant given the slump in investments into growth- and late-stage startups on the one hand and the correction being witnessed in the quick commerce segment on the other.

Unicorn drought ends as Zepto raises $200 million at $1.4 billion valuation

Zepto becomes India's 1st 2023 unicorn

Everything kept aside, it’s genuinely awe-inspiring that they’ve been able to do this in a market with close to zero interest in consumer internet plays, and most models failing  
  
 There’s definitely something about the way they executed. And many good things are said within the ecosystem about Aadit as a founder!

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Slow and steady wins the race!

Dunzo is struggling for survival while Zepto is turning into a unicorn. How come laws of financial markets working in opposite directions for both. Both Zepto and Dunzo operate in same segment which is Quick commerce. What is the catch?

Dunzo v/s Zepto: How come laws of physics are not holding up?

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Already notorious for the likes of asking subscribers to “Apply” free delivery benefits for each eligible order, they’ve gone even further.
Now if an order is running late, they just stop showing the status information and instead throw a generic apology message with an illustrated animation.

No way of tracking when the order started processing, when it was picked up, or anything at all.
They also never supported map-based tracking that other apps do - guess because that’d keep them accountable.

It’s honestly disgusting to see this kind of design philosophy permeating an up and coming consumer startup in India. 🤕

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This is Andheri East. I had ordered multiple times. I actually opened to try Zepto Cafe realised my address is not serviceable.

Not sure what's the reason. Have they closed it? Or is it some building related issue?

Zepto unavailable in Mumbai

Any insights on why did they do it? What are they going to do with the staff currently working on it?

Looks like Amazon is shutting down food delivery business

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Can anyone from Zepto help me understand the Unit Economics of Zepto (some structure would help)? Is it working, are the dark-stores really operationally profitable?

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While I'm proud of these two revolutionising the quick commerce space, I somehow have a bad feeling about this

Profits aren't coming, money is flowing
Don't know what the VCs are seeking?
Why bake a a pie that you can't eat later?

Too much money too soon, where have we seen that?

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If anyone is working in Zepto I would really like two know two things, one how you process the order packaging before hitting the checkout screen? I mean order can still be modified so how'd you manage that. And second I've heard the closest location from dark store algorithm is open source and if a user is away from vicinity of the dark store he/she would not be able to order so can anyone help me with that.

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Quick commerce and also food delivery, Zepto is pulling out one surprise card after another.

Prices are decent
Quality is good
Taste is what they described 
Secure double packaging

Tbh, these founders (who don't age) will have us surprised all through. 
Though this doesn't look like profit generating to me. 

P.S. I will now have these purple capped bottles stacked up 🙈

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