{"id":934071,"date":"2025-05-27T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=934071"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:15:55","slug":"zepto-ceo-accuses-rival-firm-cfo-of-smear-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/27\/zepto-ceo-accuses-rival-firm-cfo-of-smear-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepto CEO accuses rival firm CFO of \u2018smear campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zepto co-founder and CEO Aadit Palicha has accused the chief financial officer of a rival company of orchestrating a systematic \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the startup, in a rare public outburst in India\u2019s competitive quick commerce sector. Palicha, however, did not name the CFO or the rival company. <\/p>\n<p>In a LinkedIn post on Sunday, he claimed that the rival CFO had been \u201ccalling our investors to make wild allegations about us with no empirical evidence, giving out false numbers\/Excel sheets on Zepto through sources known to journalists, and paying bots on social media to spread a negative narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zepto co-founder and CEO Aadit Palicha has accused the chief financial officer of a rival company of orchestrating a systematic \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the startup, in a rare public outburst in India\u2019s competitive quick commerce sector. Palicha, however, did not name the CFO or the rival company. In a LinkedIn post on Sunday, he claimed that the rival CFO had been \u201ccalling our investors to make wild allegations about us with no empirical evidence, giving out false numbers\/Excel sheets on Zepto through sources known to journalists, and paying bots on social media to spread a negative narrative.\u201d<\/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-934071","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\/934071","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=934071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}