Zilingo's Journey with Ankiti Bose

At 23, Ankiti co-founded Zilingo in 2015 with the vision of bridging the technology gap within the fashion and lifestyle supply chain to help small merchants and traders go digital. Under her leadership, Zilingo had raised over $300 million from prominent investors Sequoia to Temasek, scaled to over 8 countries, with over 10,000 merchants and 7 million active users.
Editor's note: Since this interview, Ankiti Bose is no longer at the helm of Zilingo. Our goal at Billion Dollar Moves is to continue to build understanding on the stories in the US-Asia venture ecosystem, delivering them as raw as possible through the lens of our guest; and for you to make your own judgment. 
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 👊🏻 5 THINGS SHARED:
- How to bring an idea you're inspired by to conviction
- Thinking about a pivot? Making that big decision and what it takes
- What metrics matter at a stage of hypergrowth
- The digital uptake & uprising across markets
- The cost of fast fashion & what we must all do for real sustainability in a world of an inferno of desire
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - What's on tab for this week: fast fashion, digitizing fashion
02:58 - Intro- from an idea to building an empire
04:45 - From inspiration to conviction: testing the market
07:15 - The big pivot?
13:47 - What metrics matter in hypergrowth?
18:12 - ESG & fast fashion
24:55 - The inferno of desire & the problems of consumerism, big tech
32:27 - Global patterns, the future of e-commerce
36:20 - From Southeast Asia to the world?
43:08 - Special! Cameo from the audience
53:26 - BILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
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At 23, Ankiti co-founded Zilingo in 2015 with the vision of bridging the technology gap within the fashion and lifestyle supply chain to help small merchants and traders go digital. Under her leadership, Zilingo had raised over $300 million from prominent investors Sequoia to Temasek, scaled to over 8 countries, with over 10,000 merchants and 7 million active users.

Editor's note: Since this interview, Ankiti Bose is no longer at the helm of Zilingo. Our goal at Billion Dollar Moves is to continue to build understanding on the stories in the US-Asia venture ecosystem, delivering them as raw as possible through the lens of our guest; and for you to make your own judgment. 

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 👊🏻 5 THINGS SHARED:

- How to bring an idea you're inspired by to conviction

- Thinking about a pivot? Making that big decision and what it takes

- What metrics matter at a stage of hypergrowth

- The digital uptake & uprising across markets

- The cost of fast fashion & what we must all do for real sustainability in a world of an inferno of desire

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⏳ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - What's on tab for this week: fast fashion, digitizing fashion

02:58 - Intro- from an idea to building an empire

04:45 - From inspiration to conviction: testing the market

07:15 - The big pivot?

13:47 - What metrics matter in hypergrowth?

18:12 - ESG & fast fashion

24:55 - The inferno of desire & the problems of consumerism, big tech

32:27 - Global patterns, the future of e-commerce

36:20 - From Southeast Asia to the world?

43:08 - Special! Cameo from the audience

53:26 - BILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS

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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.

PODCAST INFO:

Podcast website

Watch on Youtube

Join the community

FOLLOW SARAH:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal

Instagram: instagram.com/sarahchenglobal

Twitter: twitter.com/sarahchenglobal