After a tremendously successful run of more than a month, the business reality television programme Shark Tank India ended on February 4, 2022. It’s nearly become a craze among the Indian audience. It’s a spinoff of the original American programme, which has been on the air since 2009 spanning 13 seasons.
The show has been a huge hit, both in terms of audience and in terms of inspiring the startup ecosystem. In the first season, which lasted 30 episodes, 67 businesses received investment totalling Rs 41.98 crore.
It is a reality programme where fresh entrepreneurs and people with startup ideas try to impress the “Sharks” in order to receive funding or investment for their company. This programme has taken off because of the creative usage of phrases like “pitches” and “Sharks,” which have piqued the interest of the viewers.
On the last day of the show, Lenskart co-founder and CEO Peyush Bansal pitched for Lenskart.com, and took the audience back to 2010 to retell the presentation he delivered to investors for his eyeglasses retail network twelve years ago. He requested Rs. 1 crore in exchange for a 1% interest in the firm. This made us curious as to what the other judges were up to in 2010. Let’s find out:
1. Peyush Bansal – Working on Flyrr
Peyush Bansal is both Lenskart’s co-founder and CEO. He also serves as a judge on the Indian version of Shark Tank. He was working on his startup Flyrr before establishing Lenskart in 2010. In June of 2009, he launched Flyrr. It had a similar concept to Lenskart, but he was focused on the American market. In November 2010, Peyush Bansal founded Lenskart in India, based on the same concept as Flyrr, and the rest we know what happened.
2. Ashneer Grover – Vice President at Kotak Investment Banking
Ashneer Grover, a Shark Tank India judge, is the MD and co-founder of BharatPe. But, prior to co-founding BharatPe with Shashvat Nakrani in 2018, he held a variety of positions. Ashneer Grover was a Vice President of Kotak Investment Banking in 2010.
3. Anupam Mittal – Movie producer
Anupam Mittal is the only judge on Shark Tank India who launched his company prior to 2010. He is the founder and CEO of People’s Group, which owns Shaadi.com and Makaan.com, among other companies. He is also a film producer, having worked on the films called Flavors and 99 in 2009.
4. Vineeta Singh – Director at Quetzal
Vineeta Singh, a judge on Shark Tank India, was a director of Quetzal Verify Private Limited in 2010. She began working at the firm in 2007 and remained there till 2012. She began her own business, Fab Bag, in 2012, then Sugar Cosmetics in 2015, after working at Quetzal for 5 years.
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5. Namita Thapar – CFO of Emcure Pharmaceutical
Emcure Pharmaceutical’s Executive Director is currently Namita Thapar. She was serving as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2010. She is a Chartered Accountant with an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina.
6. Aman Gupta – Pursuing his MBA
Aman Gupta, a Shark Tank India judge, was pursuing MBA at the Indian School of Business in 2010. He completed one year of his MBA there before enrolling in an exchange programme at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. In 2016, he began boAt.
7. Ghazal Alagh – Doing her BCA
Ghazal Alagh, a Shark Tank India judge, earned her Bachelor of Computer Application from Panjab University in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, she also worked at NIIT Limited as a Corporate Trainer. She is the Chief Innovation Officer at Mamaearth, which she co-founded in 2016.
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