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Kunal Bahl
Snapdeal / Titan Capital · Delhi
A Wharton kid who came back to India to sell coupons door-to-door. Rode the ecommerce wave to billions in valuation, then survived the crash and rebuilt.
ResilienceOperator-investorBharat focus
Company
Snapdeal / Titan Capital
Journey
Moves that mattered.
- 2010Co-founded Snapdeal with childhood friend Rohit Bansal.
- 2014Snapdeal raised from SoftBank, valued at $5B at peak.
- 2016Survived a brutal funding winter; rejected Flipkart's $950M acquisition offer.
- 2021Refocused Snapdeal on Bharat; launched Titan Capital to back next-gen founders.
Struggles
Watched valuation crash from $6.5B to under $1B. Mass layoffs in 2017. Public humiliation in tech press.
Family
Married to Ruchi Mishra. Two children. Notoriously private about personal life.
Related on Empire
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Around the web
External references & backlinks.
- ↗wikipedia.orgKunal Bahl on Wikipedia
- ↗google.comSnapdeal / Titan Capital — official site
- ↗news.google.comKunal Bahl in the news
- ↗crunchbase.comSnapdeal / Titan Capital on Crunchbase
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The story
A Wharton kid who came back to India to sell coupons door-to-door. Rode the ecommerce wave to billions in valuation, then survived the crash and rebuilt.
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