{"id":951786,"date":"2025-08-01T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951786"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:48:20","slug":"how-peyush-bansal-turned-a-clear-gap-into-lenskart-and-an-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/how-peyush-bansal-turned-a-clear-gap-into-lenskart-and-an-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Peyush Bansal turned a clear gap into Lenskart\u2014and an IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Peyush Bansal left a stable job at Microsoft in the US and returned to India with no clear business plan. What he did have was a conviction that large, unorganised consumer categories could be transformed with technology and direct-to-consumer models. <\/p>\n<p>The first experiment was SearchMyCampus, an online platform to help college students find housing, coaching and jobs. But it was in 2010, after co-founding Valyoo Technologies with Sumeet Kapahi and Amit Chaudhary, that Bansal zeroed in on a category hiding in plain sight: eyewear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Peyush Bansal left a stable job at Microsoft in the US and returned to India with no clear business plan. What he did have was a conviction that large, unorganised consumer categories could be transformed with technology and direct-to-consumer models. The first experiment was SearchMyCampus, an online platform to help college students find housing, coaching and jobs. But it was in 2010, after co-founding Valyoo Technologies with Sumeet Kapahi and Amit Chaudhary, that Bansal zeroed in on a category hiding in plain sight: eyewear.<\/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-951786","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\/951786","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=951786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}