{"id":972781,"date":"2025-11-10T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972781"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:28:20","slug":"lenskart-wasnt-built-to-chase-valuations-but-peyush-bansal-pens-an-emotional-note-ahead-of-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/lenskart-wasnt-built-to-chase-valuations-but-peyush-bansal-pens-an-emotional-note-ahead-of-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lenskart wasn&#8217;t built to chase valuations, but&#8230;&#8217;: Peyush Bansal pens an emotional note ahead of listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the listing on Monday, Lenskart&#8217;s co-founder Peyush Bansal shared a note to shareholders, reflecting on the company&#8217;s 15-year journey from a small eyewear startup to a global omnichannel brand valued at nearly Rs 70,000 crore. The company\u2019s shares are set to debut on the stock exchanges tomorrow, marking a milestone for the company. The IPO, which raised Rs 7,278 crore, was subscribed 28 times, drawing bids worth nearly Rs 1 lakh crore. Despite a volatile grey market, investor interest has been healthy during the bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the listing on Monday, Lenskart&#8217;s co-founder Peyush Bansal shared a note to shareholders, reflecting on the company&#8217;s 15-year journey from a small eyewear startup to a global omnichannel brand valued at nearly Rs 70,000 crore. The company\u2019s shares are set to debut on the stock exchanges tomorrow, marking a milestone for the company. The IPO, which raised Rs 7,278 crore, was subscribed 28 times, drawing bids worth nearly Rs 1 lakh crore. Despite a volatile grey market, investor interest has been healthy during the bidding.<\/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-972781","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\/972781","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=972781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}