Pandemic Existential Crisis

What this short covers

Nitin Chhabra's journey with ace turtle demonstrates the resilience and conviction required for startup success, highlighting how he navigated career changes, market demands, and pivots during crises. His story shows the mindset needed to build a successful company from the ground up.

Transcript

And uh in the first lockdown which happened post the pandemic in India it was very very brutal because uh the government because they wanted to use the entire logistics infrastructure for essentials and medicine. So they uh put a ban on all non-essential shipments and uh as I mentioned before to get more clients we were largely relying on a small revenue share and most of the clients refused to pay us and then there was no new business coming because uh there was uh you know no shipping happening to uh the consumers. So as a result you know we had an existential crisis uh and if it was not for our um investors I think we wouldn't have survived that period.

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