Gaurav Bhasin's guest appearances

Gaurav Bhasin

M&A Masters

Do More - Take Charge of Your Life

John Warrillow

Colin Campbell

Laura Simms

Gretchen West

Deborah Smith

Jordan Selleck

Michael Frank

Tom Wells

Adam Cook

Domenic Rinaldi

Michael Butler

Rob Joyce

Brett Hickey

Peter Lehrman

James Darnell

OwlTail

Carousell

#ecommerce #secondhand #retail Carousell’s Gaurav Bhasin: Building ASEAN’s Amazon  Having headed Mudah as CEO, Gaurav Bhasin is now at Singapore-founded ecommerce unicorn Carousell Group as Chief Strategy Officer, helping to map out its growth trajectory in its eight markets in the region.  Founded in 2012, Carousell’s raison d’etre is to make ‘second hand the first choice’, via its own brands like Carousell, Cho Tot, Laku6, Mudah.my, OneKyat, Ox Street and Refash, backed by investors that include Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments and Sequoia Capital India.  In this episode, the latest under Do More’s collaboration with Endeavor Malaysia and CGS-CIMB, Gaurav gets candid about the challenges and valuable lessons learnt while growing one of ASEAN’s biggest ecommerce marketplaces.  ---  CONTENTS  00:01:16 - Steering The Ship - Why Second-Hand First?  00:03:34 - Navigating Ukraine War, Inflation, Market Crash, China Crisis  00:07:04 - What It Takes to be a Unicorn  00:08:48 - How To Build Without Money?  00:11:42 - How Was Mudah.My Monetised?  00:12:39 - How to Raise Money When Small and Unproven?  00:16:16 - Should Carousell Move to Singapore?  00:17:01 - Gaurav’s Failure as an Entrepreneur &amp; The Importance of Being a Cockroach  00:19:27 - Hiring in a Talent-Thin Environment  00:21:50 - Gaurav’s Hiring Process   00:23:29 - Can You Hire From Abroad?  00:26:55 - What Kind of Diversity Counts?  00:28:48 - How to Build Culture in a Hyper Growth Environment  00:31:29 - Why Does Culture Matter?  00:33:39 - Transferring Culture to New Acquisitions  00:35:00 - Three Things to Consider When Making New Acquisitions  00:37:13 - Valuations: Do They Still Matter?  00:40:45 - How Do You Show 2nd-Hand Stuff is High Quality?  00:44:29 - Handling Investors When Business is Changing - Fast  00:46:48 - Path to Profit: the Elephant in the Room  00:48:09 - How Does ASEAN ECommerce Play Out?  00:50:08 - Should You Give Up Majority Ownership?  00:51:52 - Growing Sideways Can Be Cheaper  00:53:14 - Exit Strategies  00:54:00 - Three Words of Advice for Entrepreneurs in Scaling Mode  00:56:20 - How To Pick the Right Investments  00:56:35  - How to Build a Community on an Online Marketplace 00:57:40 - What’s a Successful Marketing Strategy?  00:59:16 - Would Gaurav Be an Entrepreneur Again? And What Would He Do?  00:59:51 - What Did Gaurav Do Wrong? What Makes a Good Co-Founder?  01:03:00 - What Data Works?  01:04:14 - How To Prepare For Recession?  Follow Gaurav here:  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3bYMifX  Mudah.my: https://www.mudah.my/  Carousell Group: https://press.carousell.com/carousell-group/  --- --- Follow Chuang here:  URL: http://www.domore.my/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/  FB: https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/  IG: https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/  ---  Follow DoMore here:  WEBSITE: https://www.domore.my/  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife  ITUNES: https://apple.co/2lQ47mS  GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO  SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp  PODBEAN: https://domoreasia.podbean.com/  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/ 

#ecommerce #secondhand #retail Carousell’s Gaurav Bhasin: Building ASEAN’s Amazon  Having headed Mudah as CEO, Gaurav Bhasin is now at Singapore-founded ecommerce unicorn Carousell Group as Chief Strategy Officer, helping to map out its growth trajectory in its eight markets in the region.  Founded in 2012, Carousell’s raison d’etre is to make ‘second hand the first choice’, via its own brands like Carousell, Cho Tot, Laku6, <a href="http://Mudah.my" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mudah.my</a>, OneKyat, Ox Street and Refash, backed by investors that include Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments and Sequoia Capital India.  In this episode, the latest under Do More’s collaboration with Endeavor Malaysia and CGS-CIMB, Gaurav gets candid about the challenges and valuable lessons learnt while growing one of ASEAN’s biggest ecommerce marketplaces.  ---  CONTENTS  00:01:16 - Steering The Ship - Why Second-Hand First?  00:03:34 - Navigating Ukraine War, Inflation, Market Crash, China Crisis  00:07:04 - What It Takes to be a Unicorn  00:08:48 - How To Build Without Money?  00:11:42 - How Was <a href="http://Mudah.My" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mudah.My</a> Monetised?  00:12:39 - How to Raise Money When Small and Unproven?  00:16:16 - Should Carousell Move to Singapore?  00:17:01 - Gaurav’s Failure as an Entrepreneur &amp; The Importance of Being a Cockroach  00:19:27 - Hiring in a Talent-Thin Environment  00:21:50 - Gaurav’s Hiring Process   00:23:29 - Can You Hire From Abroad?  00:26:55 - What Kind of Diversity Counts?  00:28:48 - How to Build Culture in a Hyper Growth Environment  00:31:29 - Why Does Culture Matter?  00:33:39 - Transferring Culture to New Acquisitions  00:35:00 - Three Things to Consider When Making New Acquisitions  00:37:13 - Valuations: Do They Still Matter?  00:40:45 - How Do You Show 2nd-Hand Stuff is High Quality?  00:44:29 - Handling Investors When Business is Changing - Fast  00:46:48 - Path to Profit: the Elephant in the Room  00:48:09 - How Does ASEAN ECommerce Play Out?  00:50:08 - Should You Give Up Majority Ownership?  00:51:52 - Growing Sideways Can Be Cheaper  00:53:14 - Exit Strategies  00:54:00 - Three Words of Advice for Entrepreneurs in Scaling Mode  00:56:20 - How To Pick the Right Investments  00:56:35  - How to Build a Community on an Online Marketplace 00:57:40 - What’s a Successful Marketing Strategy?  00:59:16 - Would Gaurav Be an Entrepreneur Again? And What Would He Do?  00:59:51 - What Did Gaurav Do Wrong? What Makes a Good Co-Founder?  01:03:00 - What Data Works?  01:04:14 - How To Prepare For Recession?  Follow Gaurav here:  LinkedIn: <a href="https://bit.ly/3bYMifX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3bYMifX</a> <a href="http://Mudah.my" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mudah.my</a>: <a href="https://www.mudah.my/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mudah.my/</a> Carousell Group: <a href="https://press.carousell.com/carousell-group/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://press.carousell.com/carousell-group/</a> --- --- Follow Chuang here:  URL: <a href="http://www.domore.my/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.domore.my/</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsu-chuang-khoo-ab199343/</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/khoo.chuang/</a> IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/khoohsuchuang/</a> ---  Follow DoMore here:  WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.domore.my/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.domore.my/</a> YOUTUBE: <a href="https://www.youtube.c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.c</a>om/c/DoMoreTakeChargeofYourLife  ITUNES: <a href="https://apple.co/2lQ47mS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://apple.co/2lQ47mS</a> GOOGLE PLAY: <a href="https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3b1l8iO</a> SPOTIFY: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y6zufvcp</a> PODBEAN: <a href="https://domoreasia.podbean.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://domoreasia.podbean.com/</a> INSTAGRAM: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/domore.asia/</a>

Carousell’s Gaurav Bhasin: Building ASEAN’s Amazon

In today’s episode of M&amp;A Masters, I sit down with Gaurav Bhasin, managing director of Allied Advisers-- a Silicon Valley-based investment banking firm with team members in Irvine, Tel Aviv, and Mumbai. Allied Advisers specializes in M&amp;A advisory services, or middle-market companies, particularly in the technology space.Gaurav and I met when he engaged Rubicon to provide rep and warrant insurance for a client of his that was being acquired by his commercial partner. Ultimately, the deal closed, but what stood out to me and the reason Gaurav is on the show, were the lessons on the role of an investment banker in an M&amp;A deal. We’ll chat with Gaurav about what it’s like to work in the middle-market, the types of services he offers that set him apart, as well as… The common themes of M&amp;A processes  How he manages to reach out to 100+ people per deal  Gaurav’s ideal client profile, and how he narrowed it down  When to reach out to an investment banker in the M&amp;A process  And more 

In today’s episode of M&amp;A Masters, I sit down with Gaurav Bhasin, managing director of Allied Advisers-- a Silicon Valley-based investment banking firm with team members in Irvine, Tel Aviv, and Mumbai. Allied Advisers specializes in M&amp;A advisory services, or middle-market companies, particularly in the technology space. Gaurav and I met when he engaged Rubicon to provide rep and warrant insurance for a client of his that was being acquired by his commercial partner. Ultimately, the deal closed, but what stood out to me and the reason Gaurav is on the show, were the lessons on the role of an investment banker in an M&amp;A deal.  We’ll chat with Gaurav about what it’s like to work in the middle-market, the types of services he offers that set him apart, as well as…<ul> <li>The common themes of M&amp;A processes </li> <li>How he manages to reach out to 100+ people per deal </li> <li>Gaurav’s ideal client profile, and how he narrowed it down </li> <li>When to reach out to an investment banker in the M&amp;A process </li> <li>And more</li> </ul>

Gaurav Bhasin | How Investment Bankers Play A Role In M&A