IndiaMART, the marketplace for Atmanirbhar Bharat
IndiaMART, the marketplace for Atmanirbhar Bharat
In the fifth episode of SMBStory’s ‘Small Businesses, Big Opportunity: Lessons from MSME trenches’, Dinesh Agarwal, Co-founder of Indianmart, talks about how the B2B ecommerce platform became the hub for all those looking to procure masks and related products following the pandemic-induced lockdown. He shares how his platform is encouraging local industries to find global customers.
About Dinesh Agarwal
Dinesh Agarwal is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of IndiaMart. After completing his BTech in Computer Science from HBTI (Harcourt Butler Technological Institute) in Kanpur, his first job was at CMC (now part of TCS) where he worked on the first Railway reservation system. His tryst with technology led him to the US, where he worked at HCL Technologies. In August 1995, when VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited) launched public internet access in India, Dinesh knew he wanted to go back home. He resigned a year later and returned to become an internet entrepreneur.
About Dipti Nair
An award-winning journalist, Dipti Nair has a rich career spanning 20 years in the Print, Web, Television, and Internet Radio space. Dipti loves writing about places and people to bring out their untold stories. She is particularly keen to explore the intersection of technology and human behaviour; and at YourStory, India’s largest digital platform for startups and entrepreneurs, she is documenting this interesting phenomenon through storytelling.
