What systemic infrastructure gaps did you have to build from scratch?
Replied bySaahil Goel
Co-founder & CEO at Shiprocket
Niche: eCommerce
Revenue: Approx. $16 Million/month
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Started: 2012
When we started, there were no integrations for on-demand logistics, payment gateways, or checkout layers. Payment gateways charged one lakh rupees as a setup fee. We realized we could not just build a store; we had to construct the entire plumbing for open e-commerce.
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