Ola, Meesho, Sanfe, Bewakoof, and More Popular Startups That Were The Brainchild of Two Friends
Startups By Friends: Businesses and friendships are advised to be kept separated. The one is believed to negatively impact the others. Archit Aggarwal and Harry Sehrawat, Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, and their likes are proving otherwise with their thriving startups which they started, developed, and made successful together. The brains behind most of the popular businesses are two friends. Take a look.
Ola by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati
Our go-to domestic travelling cab app has been developed by IIT-Mumbai batch mates Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati. While the two first took the road of 9 to 5 jobs, the passion one another for travelling fueled their idea to start Ola to help people travel within cities to popular social hubs and destinations.
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Meesho by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal
A revolutionary app for small businesses and traders, the birth of Meesho is credited to two college friends. A social commerce and the first mobile platform for small businesses, Meesho also marked Facebook’s first investment in an India-based start-up.
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Zomato by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah
The idea of Zomato, formerly FoodieBay, was ignited in the canteen of Bain and Company, where the two founders previously worked together as analysts. Zomato today stands as a pioneer in the food tech industry with a restaurant delivery platform.
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Bewakoof by Prabkiran Singh and Siddharth Munot
Known for their quirky prints, ‘Bewakoof’ was initially just a college initiative to print T-shirts for college fests. The founder even dropped the idea until 2012, when they took it up as a full-fledged startup that sells apparel and mobile phone covers.
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Sanfe by Archit Aggarwal and Harry Sehrawat
A feminine hygiene product line, Sanfe was started by two IIT-Delhi students and flatmates who wished to address the complaints of their female friends about the inaccessible sanitary conditions for women in India.
Among the world-renowned brands that were initially startups that too from friends are Microsoft, started by childhood friends Bill Gates, and Paul Allen, Apple by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and Google founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
