2016 didn’t mark the best year for start-ups. Funding was down and valuations saw a nose dive. At that time four-year-old startup Hike raised funding that too with a valuation of above billion dollar. Hike made it to the unicorn list of Indian startups in shortest span of time. Entrepreneur decodes Hike!
When you are the son of one of the country’s richest men, would you go and work with him or would you find your own path and build something of your own from the start. Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder Bharti Airtel, grew up in an environment where business was an everyday phenomenon. While senior Mittal had to wait for the country regulations to open up to reforms and face lot of challenges as a yesteryear entrepreneur, for Kavin, the resources were too many. The world was witnessing technology 2.0. The internet had changed the way the world operated. This gen-next has come with entrepreneurial ventures of a different kind. It’s not into building something as done in the manufacturing era. This world speaks of tech entrepreneurs with apps, which were a newer wave with the iphone being launched in the US in mid 2000.
Kavin was fortunate to have a father who had built an empire and very naturally he started picking up things very early. “I guess a lot of stuffI have picked up naturally, which I don’t even know about,” claims Kavin. Having an access to someone like him is wonderful. In such cases, the father-son relationship becomes more of a mentor-mentee relationship. Kavin agrees to have that focus clear owing to his father. “He always said that you should be focused. There is a large difference between knowledge and focus and I finally understood what he meant by focus and discipline. At the end of the day, it always comes down to where you spend your minutes and hours. We all spend our minutes and hours in building a business but a lot of entrepreneurs don’t understand the value of time. I think that was the realization I had.,” remembers Kavin.
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