{"id":970722,"date":"2025-10-31T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970722"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:51:18","slug":"shankar-sharma-sees-organised-campaign-against-lenskart-explains-why-it-is-a-steal-vs-paytm-zomato-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/31\/shankar-sharma-sees-organised-campaign-against-lenskart-explains-why-it-is-a-steal-vs-paytm-zomato-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankar Sharma sees organised campaign against Lenskart. Explains why it is a steal vs Paytm, Zomato, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran investor Shankar Sharma has weighed in on the debate surrounding Lenskart\u2019s upcoming initial public offering, stating that the eyewear retailer\u2019s valuation is under unfair scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he remarked: \u201cI have never bought any specs (I don\u2019t wear specs) ever, but one thing is crystal clear from my lens: there is an organised campaign against Lenskart. At ~10x sales, it\u2019s a steal compared to P\/sales valuations of Paytm, Nykaa, Zomato, PB, CarTrade, etc., who IPO\u2019d at 25-50x their revenues (with plenty of losses too).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran investor Shankar Sharma has weighed in on the debate surrounding Lenskart\u2019s upcoming initial public offering, stating that the eyewear retailer\u2019s valuation is under unfair scrutiny. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he remarked: \u201cI have never bought any specs (I don\u2019t wear specs) ever, but one thing is crystal clear from my lens: there is an organised campaign against Lenskart. At ~10x sales, it\u2019s a steal compared to P\/sales valuations of Paytm, Nykaa, Zomato, PB, CarTrade, etc., who IPO\u2019d at 25-50x their revenues (with plenty of losses too).\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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970722","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=970722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}