Day 7 of 100 · Q-Commerce

Zepto

Two 19-year-olds dropped out of Stanford and built 10-minute grocery delivery in India.

Started atStanford University (Indian founders)
Founded2021
FoundersAadit Palicha & Kaivalya Vohra
CountryIndia

How it started

School friends from Mumbai went to Stanford, quit during the pandemic, and returned to build a company that turned delivery speed into a category.

The lesson for your campus Age is not a qualification requirement for building something serious.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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Pick a question — or write your own — and get a grounded answer about how Zepto was actually built.

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The next one comes from your campus

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