Global Unicorn Series To Promote the Journey towards Entrepreneurship
New Delhi: Mr Yashish Dahiya, Co-Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer, Policybazaar while sharing his entrepreneurial experience, highlighted the importance of leveraging technology and consumer engagement through simple & quality communication.
He also said that he and his other co-founders were extremely confident in their venture’s success and highly praised his family background & work experience, which motivated him for entrepreneurship.
As his advice to aspiring entrepreneurs, Mr Dahiya said that one should have a believe on themselves and must do their best every day.
Mr Dahiya was sharing Policybazaar journey at the sixth session of the Global Unicorn Interaction Series, an initiative by the Future Business Group (FBG) of CII and Young Indians (Yi) in partnership with SoftBank India. The interaction series has been designed to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurs and guide them to emerge as the next unicorns.
While moderating the session over a digital platform today, Mr. Manoj Kohli, Chairman, CII Future Business Group & Country Head, SoftBank Group International, India mentioned the importance of addressing consumer pain for ensuring entrepreneurial success.
He also applauded the online service and the branding strategies adopted by Policybazaar.
Briefing about the CII’s Future Business Group initiative, Mr Anuj Agarwal, Chair Entrepreneurship CII Young Indians (Yi) emphasised that the Global Unicorn series initiative shall go a long way in encouraging the youth of India.
The CII’s Future Business Group (FBG), that comprises of brilliant young leaders of India’s most successful new-age businesses, was officially launched on 3rd September by Hon’ble Minister Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Railways, Government of India.
FBG aims to curate an enabling, and conducive ecosystem that plays an encouraging role in the realization of many new-age businesses, and thus accelerates the way for the novel businesses to bloom in India.
One of the significant initiatives under the group is the Global Unicorn Series being organized in partnership with Yi and SoftBank India. Each session in the series is focused around a talk on how a bootstrap start-up could transform to a unicorn, followed by their mantra for success, the driving factors, and provide valuable insights on way ahead for future unicorns. The first, second, third, fourth & fifth session was held with Oyo, Ola, Nykaa, Acronis & Delhivery respectively.