Abhishek Rai

Hardcore Sales Guy and Founder For 52 months Of 3 Startups in Pune, India

Abhishek Rai

Hardcore Sales Guy and Founder For 52 months Of 3 Startups in Pune, India

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Currently, working on an education related side-project - Yearly Online School Of Language Learning.

In Sales and Distribution, I have work-experience of more than 11 Years in 7 diverse consumer industries. I have also worked as an intra-preneur with a sales and distribution company and an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with an early stage edtech startup.

Further, have spent 52 months of my life, working on my 3 startups. An Engineer by education and Sales & Operations guy by profession.

Get Yearly (@getyeraly) was my last venture. At Get Yearly we focused on yearly subscriptions of high quality, private label personal care products at un-believably low prices.

Ayna (@youandayna), the second last venture was where Ladies could sell their old clothes and accessories and get cash in return. All this without posting at multiple classified sites or haggling for price with multiple potential buyers.

Vikeyta (@vikreyta), was the first venture was an e-commerce store with zero-inventory model, which stocked everything from cookies to camera, sourced from traditional mom-and-pop retailers only. We used to deliver grocery within Pune metropolitan region in just 2 hours.

I have sold Yellow Pages advertising space, Agri Chemicals, Hybrid Seeds, Refrigerators,Washing Machines, Mobile Phones, Operator Sim-Cards,LCD-Plasma TV, Digital Cameras,Memory Cards, Projectors, Mobile accessories and web app.

Once led a team of more than 400 persons successfully.

Learning Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

On of the "Most Viewed Writers" on Quora.

Cooking is the stress buster for me.

A trained active listener at "7 Cups Of Tea" community.

I love traveling and being on the road is nirvana to me.

Blogging since July 2005.

Trivia-:

* I am the only person in last 7 generations of my family to feature on a TV reality show (business). See, not an utter failure, after all !

* Almost blew up my testicles with gun-powder, when I was 8 yrs old.

* De-gassed more than 300 bicycles from the school cycle stand to take a revenge.

* Once climbed a mountain alone at 0230 hrs in a moon-less night, when was 15 yrs old.

* Have completed 6 courses from Udacity,EdX and Coursera.

* Quit a well paid job (for the first time) in 2007 to work as an "entrepreneur-in-residence" with a small company and built a sales and distribution network of diverse products from scratch.

  • Education
    • Engineering