{"id":973040,"date":"2025-11-11T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973040"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:21:02","slug":"lenskarts-hunt-for-engineers-and-a-bride-for-its-co-founder-peyush-bansals-candid-ipo-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/11\/lenskarts-hunt-for-engineers-and-a-bride-for-its-co-founder-peyush-bansals-candid-ipo-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenskart&#8217;s hunt for engineers and a bride for its co-founder: Peyush Bansal\u2019s candid IPO tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Lenskart founder and CEO Peyush Bansal took the stage at the company\u2019s listing ceremony on Monday, he didn\u2019t just talk valuations and vision. Instead, he shared how building India\u2019s largest eyewear brand once meant convincing not just engineers to join a \u201cchashma ka company,\u201d but even persuading his co-founder\u2019s would-be father-in-law that an eyewear start-up wasn\u2019t such a bad place for his daughter\u2019s future husband to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lenskart founder and CEO Peyush Bansal took the stage at the company\u2019s listing ceremony on Monday, he didn\u2019t just talk valuations and vision. Instead, he shared how building India\u2019s largest eyewear brand once meant convincing not just engineers to join a \u201cchashma ka company,\u201d but even persuading his co-founder\u2019s would-be father-in-law that an eyewear start-up wasn\u2019t such a bad place for his daughter\u2019s future husband to work.<\/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-973040","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\/973040","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=973040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}