ET Startup Awards 2025: Shark Tank trained me for public scrutiny: Lenskart’s Peyush Bansal

At a fireside chat during The ET Startup Awards, Lenskart cofounder and CEO Peyush Bansal spoke to ET’s Samidha Sharma about the eyewear retailer’s upcoming transition into a publicly listed company following its Rs 7,300 crore IPO, social media criticism about its valuation and the pressures of public markets. Edited excerpts:

You were here last year as the Startup of the Year winner and this year you’re going public. How has it been?