{"id":918356,"date":"2025-03-31T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918356"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:35:08","slug":"why-cardekho-and-infra-market-bet-on-strong-foundations-over-fast-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/31\/why-cardekho-and-infra-market-bet-on-strong-foundations-over-fast-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why CarDekho and Infra.market bet on strong foundations over fast growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startups need to focus on building a strong foundation even if it means they grow slowly, said Amit Jain, co-founder and chief executive of the CarDekho Group, an online marketplace for buying vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took us 8 years to reach the first \u20b9100 crore. And it was a bootstrapped company, so we never raised funds till 2014. That\u2019s when we were actually funded. So, as a bootstrapped company we had kind of hit the \u20b9100 crore scale without actually utilizing any cash, and it was profitable everywhere,\u201d he said, speaking at the Mint India Investment Summit in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startups need to focus on building a strong foundation even if it means they grow slowly, said Amit Jain, co-founder and chief executive of the CarDekho Group, an online marketplace for buying vehicles. \u201cIt took us 8 years to reach the first \u20b9100 crore. And it was a bootstrapped company, so we never raised funds till 2014. That\u2019s when we were actually funded. So, as a bootstrapped company we had kind of hit the \u20b9100 crore scale without actually utilizing any cash, and it was profitable everywhere,\u201d he said, speaking at the Mint India Investment Summit in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}