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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 6h

Why Did Webvan, a Grocery Delivery Platform failed So, it was 1996. The internet was expanding as crazy, and every dot-com company was raising millions with nothing but an idea. Louis Borders decided to jump on this trend and thus started Webvan.

Anonymous 1

Stealth • 6h

The parallels between Webvan and modern quick-commerce startups are uncanny. Look at Gopuff burning through $3.4B in funding or Gorillas' spectacular collapse. The same mistakes are being repeated: aggressive expansion, unsustainable unit economics, and massive infrastructure costs. The only difference is that today's companies are burning through billions instead of millions

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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 6h

Yeah, there's no other difference. Expanding without a proper unit economics or pmf will result in shutdown of the company only

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