{"id":977423,"date":"2025-11-29T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977423"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T04:24:14","slug":"the-meesho-interview-in-e-comm-affordability-beats-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/29\/the-meesho-interview-in-e-comm-affordability-beats-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meesho Interview | \u2018In e-comm affordability beats speed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho is aiming to raise Rs 5,421 crore through its initial public offering (IPO), which opens for subscription on December 3. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 105-111 per share, valuing the company at Rs 50,096 crore at the upper end. Co-founder and CTO, Sanjeev Kumar, speaks with Ayanti Bera about Meesho\u2019s experiments in asset-light logistics, the future of AI in e-commerce, and the scale of opportunity in smaller cities. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho is aiming to raise Rs 5,421 crore through its initial public offering (IPO), which opens for subscription on December 3. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 105-111 per share, valuing the company at Rs 50,096 crore at the upper end. Co-founder and CTO, Sanjeev Kumar, speaks with Ayanti Bera about Meesho\u2019s experiments in asset-light logistics, the future of AI in e-commerce, and the scale of opportunity in smaller cities. Excerpts:<\/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-977423","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\/977423","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=977423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}