{"id":934040,"date":"2025-05-27T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=934040"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:15:24","slug":"zeptos-aadit-palicha-alleges-smear-campaign-by-rival-cfo-says-they-are-starting-to-get-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/27\/zeptos-aadit-palicha-alleges-smear-campaign-by-rival-cfo-says-they-are-starting-to-get-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepto\u2019s Aadit Palicha alleges smear campaign by \u2018rival CFO\u2019; says \u2018they are starting to get nervous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With competition heating up in India\u2019s quick commerce space, Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha has alleged that the chief financial officer of a rival company has been attempting to orchestrate a smear campaign to discredit the startup. In a LinkedIn post, he said that the rival CFO has been calling Zepto\u2019s investors to make wild allegations with no empirical evidence, circulating false data through sources known to journalists, and paying bots on social media to spread a negative narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With competition heating up in India\u2019s quick commerce space, Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha has alleged that the chief financial officer of a rival company has been attempting to orchestrate a smear campaign to discredit the startup. In a LinkedIn post, he said that the rival CFO has been calling Zepto\u2019s investors to make wild allegations with no empirical evidence, circulating false data through sources known to journalists, and paying bots on social media to spread a negative narrative.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934040","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=934040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}