Introducing

Rahul Chari

Founder & CTO, PhonePe

Rahul Chari is the Co-founder and CTO of payments platform PhonePe. He built the stack for eKart logistics at Flipkart before he went on to build PhonePe, India’s first non-banking payment platform. Unlike many other founders who think of IIT as the only stepping stone to success, Rahul believed differently. He cracked the premier exam and got admission to IIT-Bombay in 1995, but decided to bypass the institute. He joined the University of Mumbai to do what he always wanted to do: computer science engineering. Today, the three-time entrepreneur has over 18 years of experience in storage visualisation, content management, and supply chain technology. View on technology “I genuinely believe that India as a country (along with its people and industry) will leapfrog the traditional models of growth and progress on all fronts. This presents us with the unique opportunity to view every problem around us with the lens of applying technology to enable this jump. Technology, to me, is the means to apply solutions at scale to high impact areas that can bring about massive positive change in t… Read more