Saahil Goel, MD and CEO of Shiprocket , began exploring coding while still in high school. He even built his first website and managed to monetise it. The passion for tech continued during further studies in the US. His friend from undergrad days, Gautam Kapoor, now the COO and co-founder of Shiprocket, and he were constantly brainstorming startup ideas through those years.

Finally, the idea of Shiprocket crystallsed when a family friend wanted a “Shopify of India” to set up a shoe brand online. Kapoor and Goel realised no one was doing it in a simple, connected way. That was the moment. Six months later, Goel moved back to India, and launched Shiprocket with Kapoor in 2012.

“The idea had actually started germinating around 2011–2012, as I observed the rise of e-commerce in India and a

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