Opening an online business for the average Indian business owner can be tough.
We unlocked their potential by undertaking some ground-breaking initiatives that resulted in a 700% growth in our seller base in just a year.
Read more on this 🧵 & blog (1/8)
Meesho is 😗 goodbye to heteronormative ideas of family👪 & adopting a gender-neutral parental leave policy that is inclusive of adoptive/biological/ unmarried/same-sex 🌈 parents.
☝️ What we mean when we say Meesho is a people-centric workplace
How does one develop Growth Mindset?
Nikita Dawda (
@Nikdraws
), a self-described “nervous cookie” when she joined Meesho who went from a Category Manager to Sr. Director and Chief of Staff to the CEO in 3 yrs, shares insightful nuggets — (1/n)
We are thrilled to work alongside Telangana's visionary government and honourable minister
@KTRTRS
on our mission to digitize small sellers and fuel their entrepreneurial spirit.
#Entrepreneurship
#business
Second major announcement from Davos!
@Meesho_Official
, the fast growing eCommerce company agreed to set up their facility in Hyderabad. Meesho will be working with the Govt. of Telangana in onboarding the retail sellers in Tier-II towns.
Our lakhs of suppliers sell 50mn+ products on our platform 😎
Items come & go, 💰 change…
How to catalogue these changes real-time?🧐
#MeeshoTech
@_sumitkr
&
@shreyash_ag
reveal the indexing ↕️s that led to
#ApacheFlink
Today is an exciting day for Meesho! We'd like to announce that
@Facebook
has made an
#investment
in Meesho, which will help us further our efforts to enable independent entrepreneurs to build businesses and grow their customer base via social channels.
We used this 5-step model to crack a tough nut recently: Cross-Functional Collaborations
Sheeba Mammen (
@Sheebabooklover
) documents the process here:
We cater to a market that few understand, or have strong relevance to —
#Bharat
😎
This is driven largely by strong engineering 🔥
But what's our code?
@ckalyan
takes you through our Engineering Guidelines:
The past few days were epic for us. Our much awaited
#MegaBlockbusterSale
received over 33m orders while the Maha Diwali sale was another massive success 🤯
Meesho is going on a company-wide break from November 4-14th.
Yes, you read that right. We are going to completely unplug from work — right after our busy and frenetic festive sale season, so that we are back to doing what we love — relaxed and rejuvenated. (1/2)
#Meesho
Nearly 80% of our customers are from Tier 2 and below cities in Bharat.
We thrive amidst network infrastructure woes & a myriad of other challenges.
@Ayush1610
walks you through how we improved our suppliers' experience.
Our amazing leadership has announced a revolutionary 11-day company-wide break from 22nd Oct to 1st Nov. We can completely unplug from work to explore the world, check off bucket lists, spend quality time with family, or even go on meditation retreats 🙌
If you had 11 days to yourself without any of the following:
🤝Online Meetings
📳 Work Calls
📩 Emails
⏰ Deadlines
What would you do?🤔
Here’s a sneak peek into our epic plans for Reset ‘N Recharge, an uninterrupted 11-day break:
Product managers collaborate with almost all the functions in a company to ensure their product gets the required support. "You can't be a great product manager without being great at stakeholder management",
@gaganmahajan03
writes in his blog. Full story:
Our CXOs went across Bharat to speak with our end customers and suppliers last month for our “Listen or Die” ritual. They learnt what’s working and what needs work on the Meesho platform.
Our CPO
@kirti_varun_a
jots down his findings:
We've come a long way since distributing flyers, and asking shopkeepers to try our app 📱
Today,
@viditaatrey
and
@barnwalSanjeev
are joined by more than 15 million entrepreneurs!
And we're not stopping here 🏃🏻♂️
We're discussing 'Boundaryless'- Our first of a kind, 'Work From Anywhere' model.
Join
@viditaatrey
@barnwalSanjeev
@AshishKSinghHR
&
@adadithya
for a twitter spaces session on how we conceptualised this policy, & what it means for the Future of Work.
🗓️ 17th Feb-Thu
🕖 7pm IST
Feb 2019 - 209,000 users, 1.2 million orders/month.
March 2020 - 563,000 users, 3.1 million orders/month.
September 2021 - 17.8 million users, 51 million orders/month. 🤗😎
Our goal: 100 million MTUs by December 2022. 💪
We follow the Atomic Design system by
@brad_frost
. That’s why our app design is the bomb! 💣💥💥💥
@Ayush1610
introduces you to Crystal, our design system inspired from Brad's excellent framework.
Read more:
#designthinking
#uiuxdesign
Our customers rely heavily on visuals to make shopping decisions 📱
This inch-long feature on our app increased our orders per visitor by 3.5%!
@mohantee
dives into the land grab (😉) in digital app real estate
Meesho CTO & Co Founder
@barnwalSanjeev
gets featured in
@YourStoryCo
's list of Top 10 Tech Leaders it celebrated this year. Read to find out why Sanjeev says that in the initial days, it is important to get the minimum viable product out quickly.
Meesho makes it to 2018’s
#LinkedInTopStartups
list as 25 sought-after places to work for by professionals based on top talent pull, employee growth, jobseeker interest and level of professional engagement with its employees!
@viditaatrey
Last week, we met
@mukularora
and asked him,
“How do great startups thrive?”
This is what Meesho’s first mentor said:
- By experimenting enough
- Having a razor-sharp focus
- Being customer-obsessed
Thank you for an insightful and thought-provoking chat with
@viditaatrey
Super proud to announce that SoftBank Vision Fund is leading our $300M round at $2.1B valuation and partnering in our vision of enabling 100M Small Businesses in India to succeed online.
@sumerjuneja
@Sarthak_Misra1
A thread on past and future! 🧵
Kyunki Meesho par commission hai zero, business aapka banega hero!
Small businesses now have an even better shot at being successful online, with Meesho's 0% commission launch. Meesho is intent on democratising internet commerce for small businesses. Watch our new campaign below.
Meesho was recently chosen in the “Best for Women 2022” category for
@xto10x
's “Startups Employees Love” awards. So we asked Meesho women who had climbed the ladder and are now leaders what their thoughts were.
Learn more:
#womenentrepreneurs
Coming together to celebrate Meesho's 6th birthday virtually couldn't have been more fun! Meeshoites had a super fun night with the whole team yesterday, we were joined by singer Lucky Ali who gave a soulful, magical performance that had us weeping!
#luckyali
#meeshoturns6
It's official - Meesho is ranked No 6 on
#LinkedInTopStartups
2021 list in India!✌️🚀
A shout out to our exceptionally talented Meesho crew who are on an ambitious path of enabling 100 million small businesses to succeed online and democratising internet commerce for everyone.⭐️
We're growing 10X & so is our volume of incoming events 🚀
To keep this tsunami of data in check, we needed to adopt faster processing methods & reduce run-time.
Prashant Tatan &
@ramizmehran
talk about how we did this giant shift.
None other than
@manukumarjain
, Global Vice President, Xiaomi and Managing Director,
@XiaomiIndia
will be in the house as part of our August
#MeeshoSpeakerSeries
. We are super excited to learn from Manu and take notes on scaling, innovation and building your brand from ground up.
Meesho is bracing itself for a wild rollercoaster ride of brainstorming, creative genius & jaw-dropping solutions 🌟
A 30 hour internal
#Hackathon
filled with coding prowess & caffeine-fueled madness. Watch this space for more..
#GenAI
@GoogleCloud_IN
@databricks
@Microsoft
We are super thrilled to be on
@ycombinator
's Top Companies List -2019.
@meeshoapp
was in YC's Summer 2016 batch & today we are in esteemed company on this Top 100 list. Thank you
@ycombinator
for this honour. Read more here:
Drumroll please!
#Meesho
just turned 5. Our CEO
@viditaatrey
& CTO
@barnwalSanjeev
left their cushy jobs exactly 5 years ago to start Meesho. This year we are taking our birthday celebrations online but meanwhile, here are some throwback photos from last year's celebrations.
Super pumped to share that we’ve raised $570M in our largest round yet led by
@Fidelity
&
@BCapitalGroup
with Prosus, Softbank, & Facebook participating again! 🎉
In just 5 months, our valuation is now up >2x to $4.9B.
Meesho's VP- International Business
@prateek_agwl
was part of Meesho's core team. He was around when Meesho India was being set up, and recently he did it all over again when Meesho expanded its business to Indonesia. Read all his
#LifeAtMeesho
here:
Say hi to Meshlytics - our very own in-house analytics tool. It's a pure Kotlin library that allows our app to interact with all analytics platforms (Mixpanel, Clevertap, & more) through a single interface.
Arjit Agarwal (SDE-III, Android) explains more 👇
Given the sheer size of the offline Indian marketplace, small businesses in India are looking for simple tools to help them navigate the endless possibilities online marketing can bring.
That's where we comes in, says
@viditaatrey
🧵
(1/6)
A core tenant of how we look at
#productmanagement
:
Problem discovery > Product discovery/Product Solutioning. 😎
@gaganmahajan03
's framework on how we make decisions to build/not build a product 👇🏻
We are super stoked to announce that
@NaspersVentures
has joined hands with Meesho, which will help us further in our mission to create 20 million entrepreneurs by 2020!
Super excited to welcome Naspers onboard the Meesho rocketship.
While we celebrate this milestone, we are conscious of the responsibility it carries. Creating and enabling the next 20M micro entrepreneurs in India. And we are ready!
Eid Mubarak folks :)
After exerting tremendous effort, sacrificing sleep, and putting their knowledge & resources to the test, 13 teams have emerged as finalists from a pool of 60. These teams are now ready to present their ideas to our esteemed panel of judges.
We can’t wait for the final verdict!
From college friends to startup founders... find out how our CEO Vidit Aatrey and CTO and Co founder Sanjeev Barnwal started Meesho together in this YourStory article.
Helping Bharat shop online is the best prize we can hope for.
While we continue to build for the next billion, some external recognition is always welcome ☺️
Proud to win at the
#MintStartupIcon2022
Awards! 🏆
@TechCircleIndia
@livemint
PS: You go,
@megs_ag
!
What would you do if you got an 11-day break from your daily grind?
Not speaking the entire time is an option 😉
Our Reset 'N Recharge break is coming up in 4days.
Click here to learn more:
#mentalhealth
#wellness
#wellbeing
#lifeatmeesho
How did the Tech team at
@meeshoapp
manage to build an adaptive, on demand video streaming solution within a short span of time? Find out in this guest post on our Medium blog by VP Engineering
@pareshgoel
:
Meesho Co-Founders,
@viditaatrey
(CEO) and
@barnwalSanjeev
(CTO), have been featured in
@IndiaToday
's July edition as part of its cover story Age of the Unicorns. Read about Meesho's journey till now, and our ambitious roadmap ahead 👇
#Meesho
Last weekend,
@meeshoapp
had its second 24 hour hackathon - hack.mee (2.0) where 19 teams took part in building solutions ground up to some of the most challenging problems at Meesho. The winning teams (see photos) came up with brilliant 10X solutions for growth. Go team!
3 days — that's all it took for us to plan & execute a massive feature on WhatsApp.
And we did it in the middle of our biggest sale ever 🛍
@grajat97kumar1
introduces you to Meesho's WhatsApp chatbot 👋
We are proud to launch
#MeeshoSpeakerSeries
, an expert series that will feature industry leaders in conversation with our CEO and Co Founder
@viditaatrey
. The first edition will feature
@sriramk
, product leader & investor, best known for leading
@Twitter
core product teams.
We are thrilled to announce that
@meeshoapp
is the Brand of the Year at the
#MMA
#SMARTIES2019
and has won several other awards for its campaign 'When Women Joined Hands To Break Social Shackles'! Big congratulations to the team!
@sdhskr
@malvk
CAMPEONES 🏆🏆🏆
The captivating two-day hackathon has reached its thrilling conclusion. Rest assured, all 60 participating teams poured their hearts into this competition. Without a doubt, it can be regarded as the most successful
#hackathon
in Meesho's history!
More to follow
From setting an example to codifying the core values and encouraging everyone in the company to live and breathe by them, our Co Founders
@viditaatrey
&
@barnwalSanjeev
have been intentional in setting up Meesho’s work culture. Learn all about it here:
How’s the josh for our upcoming Reset ‘N Recharge 11-day holiday? 😃
Very high! 🙌
Don’t know what Reset ‘N Recharge is all about? 🤔
We’re going for a long break of 11 days to completely unplug from work and take a breather. Read more:
5 days to go...