{"id":971285,"date":"2025-11-03T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971285"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:32:34","slug":"et-startup-awards-2025-shark-tank-trained-me-for-public-scrutiny-lenskarts-peyush-bansal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/03\/et-startup-awards-2025-shark-tank-trained-me-for-public-scrutiny-lenskarts-peyush-bansal\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2025: Shark Tank trained me for public scrutiny: Lenskart&#8217;s Peyush Bansal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a fireside chat during The ET Startup Awards, Lenskart cofounder and CEO Peyush Bansal spoke to ET\u2019s Samidha Sharma about the eyewear retailer\u2019s upcoming transition into a publicly listed company following its Rs 7,300 crore IPO, social media criticism about its valuation and the pressures of public markets. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>You were here last year as the Startup of the Year winner and this year you\u2019re going public. How has it been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a fireside chat during The ET Startup Awards, Lenskart cofounder and CEO Peyush Bansal spoke to ET\u2019s Samidha Sharma about the eyewear retailer\u2019s upcoming transition into a publicly listed company following its Rs 7,300 crore IPO, social media criticism about its valuation and the pressures of public markets. Edited excerpts: You were here last year as the Startup of the Year winner and this year you\u2019re going public. How has it been?<\/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-971285","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\/971285","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=971285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}