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Dunzo not in a great position

First, they had a layoff. Some people in the leadership quit. Middle management people are quitting. They shut down majority of the dark stores. They are pivoting their business. They are out of runway.

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JumpyHamster
JumpyHamster
Stealth24mo

Reliance acquired them correct?

DerpyUnicorn
DerpyUnicorn
PhonePe24mo

They have ~25% stake. But they too have distanced themselves. Else would have funded again.

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba
X (formerly Twitter)24mo

Reliance waiting for it to burn itself so they can acquire them for pennies

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon24mo

It would be sad to see such a pioneer company in the offline delivery space go away. Hope they make it.

FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo24mo

Ya sadly good things are dying

BouncyBiscuit
BouncyBiscuit
Stealth24mo

Why do so many people feel this way about so many companies? Does no one care about business models? In FY22 Dunzo made a revenue of 54 Cr, and a loss of 464 Cr. Any college grad can be a pioneer. Just think of an idea when drunk and somehow get people to throw cash due to zirp era and burn through it. There is no way such a huge burn should be survivable unless you keep raising. You can never survive on the basis of your business.

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba
X (formerly Twitter)24mo

Interviewed with Dunzo a while back. Their CFO sits in the US while the company burns through cash. They expect people to work as ICs on the get go and without supervision. I feel like they are going to implode.

TwirlySushi
TwirlySushi
INDMoney24mo

Why would the CEO of an India based delivery startup be based in the US? Weird

DerpyQuokka
DerpyQuokka
Stealth24mo

Because he needs to be close to the place where all the real innovations are happening. He’s thinking big and can’t bother with the peasants in india scurrying around for order taking and fulfilment. (I’m joking)

BubblyRaccoon
BubblyRaccoon
Myntra24mo

Last year I went through a Dunzo interview process. Understood both engineering talent, culture is shit. Company culture is shit. Shit show is running on the name of some innovations this is going to stop soon once they fail to raise the next round of funding and run out of runway. Reliance is not going to keep on bumping the money into something that is not yelling any returns. The same thing is going to happen with the Zepto and Blinkit.

JumpyHamster
JumpyHamster
Stealth24mo

bro even myntra was supposed to go public 5 years back and then the founder sold and took the exit

BubblyRaccoon
BubblyRaccoon
Myntra24mo

In simple words they know what the future holds for the company. So the best way for them is to sell the company make money and leave the company. People start a company to make money. The same was done by Whitehat Jr founder as well. He knows what the future holds.

DizzyDonut
DizzyDonut
Harness24mo

Reliance dips their feet in multiple waters. Things that take off is where they are heavily invested in. So if it's a sinking ship pretty sure going down quickly as it's cost intensive business.

DizzyPancake
DizzyPancake
PayU24mo

Ex PM at Dunzo, silent layoffs happening.

DerpyUnicorn
DerpyUnicorn
PhonePe24mo

Yeah. I heard. I myself got laid off in Jan, but in touch with my team mates. Seems it's pretty ugly internally.

FloatingCoconut
FloatingCoconut
Stealth24mo

I remember speaking to Kabeer months ago. It's evident he lies a lot about the company, its culture, and Reliance's influence. He has that reputation in the journalist circles.

JazzyCoconut
JazzyCoconut
Stealth24mo

Good. Such nonsense business models shouldn’t exist.

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