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Vidit Aatrey

CEO & Co-Founder, Meesho

Search every verified Vidit Aatrey interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, recently participated in a fireside chat at the ET Startup Awards alongside Groww CEO Lalit Keshre, where the two discussed the transition from startup to publicly listed company. Aatrey noted that an IPO is a process lasting roughly nine months rather than a single-day event, and emphasized the importance of transparent communication with investors and avoiding overpromising. He also recounted an anecdote from Meesho's first annual general meeting as a public company, where retail investors, including a retired couple, expressed personal stakes in the company's performance. In an episode of the Legendary Pivots series, Aatrey discussed Meesho's early history and its pivot from a reseller model to a consumer model, a decision made after observing a WhatsApp-based economy that he and co-founder Sanjeev Barnwal had not initially understood. He also described the company's path to profitability, stating that leaders set a goal in June 2022 to become profitable within a year, and that Meesho achieved its first profitable and cash-flow-positive month in July 2023. Aatrey further spoke about leveraging new technologies, such as AI and voice agents, to serve users who are less familiar with reading and typing, as part of the company's mission to bring more consumers online.

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“I think it has changed in many ways. Some I thought would change and some are very surprising to me. So I'll tell you one anecdote: last month was our first AGM as a public company, and as part of the AGM, suddenly we have a few of these retail investors stand up and ask these questions, and these are retired people. A retired couple stands up and asks a question, and then they give you blessings and say, 'Hey, we ar”

“So I remember June 22 all the leaders in the company took a goal in a year we'll become profit. So 12 months and June 2023 we basically was like July 2023 I think was our first profitable month. We were cash flow positive.”

“So this is like an economy that existed that both Sanji and I had no idea of that's when we decided that we will now move away from a reseller model to now a consumer model.”

“I think if you ask me 10 years from now 120% I think India will be a big AI winner because India has the talent and if the technology enables it with very very low token cost and infrastructures available I think it's going to take off”

“The vision of one is in the long run a customer should never have to read, type or click a button. They will basically speak to an AI and they will start to see only visual information, maybe images, maybe other information that's required to basically move forward, make payments, everything through voice.”

“We recently launched a voice agent so customers can speak in their own native language and never have to read on the app; they just speak to the agent, see photographs, and make the transaction happen.”

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