Episode XXix- Dinesh Kumar Kotha, Co-Founder of ConfirmTkt

ConfirmTkt is an online train ticket discovery and booking engine that delivers a seamless search and booking experience to travelers. They are now acquired by an online travel aggregator ixigo for an undisclosed amount.  Dinesh Kumar Kotha is the Co-founder & CEO of ConfirmTkt. Before starting ConfirmTkt he was a Software Development Engineer in a company known as o9. He also worked as an Application Developer(Java) in IBM. Here's what you can learn from this episode: What was his role in o9 Solutions and IBM? How was the idea behind his first startup Meterup conceptualized? When did he realize Meterup was not going to scale? How was Confirmtkt born? What was the trigger that told him to leave his well-established job and work on Confirmtkt full-time? How did he meet his first investor- Pravin? What were his expectations when he came to pitch at Nasscom? How much money did he raise in the timeframe of Confirmtkt? How did Dinesh cut the burn rate in the initial stage and make a new path for the company? How did he build his first 100 users? How did he go from a 1k a day company to a 3crore a day company? How did the ixigo conversation take place? How did he work out the modalities with the acquisition during the pandemic? What are the 3 things he is proud of during his tenure with Confirmtkt? If he had a chance to do it all over again what would he do differently?

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