Meet the 27-year-old set to be India's first woman to co-found a $1 billion start-up

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Meet the 27-year-old set to be India's first woman to co-found a $1 billion start-up (via CNBCMakeIt)

and India's Flipkart. But she was struck by the lack of opportunities at that time for small-time merchants in Southeast Asia.

"It was a bit of a David and Goliath idea," said Bose, now 27, referring to the Biblical parable of the young boy who took on — and defeated — a giant. "Technology companies have a better shot at scaling things in a way that's non-linear," Bose said. "Hundreds of distribution agents all over Asia are leaking away margins from the real people that deserve it, and I think it is only technology that can solve that."

"So here's this guy, sitting on the couch in my living room having a beer, and he's talking about back-end, and what he does with gaming and analytics and this and that. And I say 'hey, you know what, I've been thinking about this thing, what do you think about it?'"

 

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Yes to girl power!

MakeIt I'd like to meet her. Meet her for dinner for two somewhere.

MakeIt where are the other co-founders? got to stop the petty girl power propaganda thingy. FeministsAreMisandrists GirlPowerPropangadaIsSexism

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