Karthik Jagannathan on Starting up at age 50, Building Gallabox, India's favorite Whatsapp Solution & Company Culture in India Vs the US

The Neon Show

Karthik Jagannathan, after working for more than two decades across cross-functional experience in Telecom and Internet businesses, with a specific focus on SMBs, decided to build a solution to help SMBs scale faster with Gallabox.

In today’s episode, Karthik shares the backstory of what led him to starting up at the age of 50, building something for SMBs, and more.

Notes -

01:36 - Serving a business like it's your own

04:10 - Where do the roots of ownership come from in his life?

06:27 - What other significant events in his life lead him to here today?

08:58 - Building and growing sustainably in crisis

12:06 - India wasn’t a place of - “Grow fast, Break fast.”

18:34 - Landscape out there in Small & Medium Businesses in India

24:33 - Zoho Sponsored – Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it?

26:44 - Zeroing down on an idea to solve for SMBs

36:22 - Leveraging Whatsapp with Gallabox

39:06 - Themes that he wanted to solve for

40:49 - Scaling to over 500+ business

49:39 - Learnings from their journey so far

51:50 - What helped them grow faster?

57:49 - Advice for entrepreneur building for SMBs

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