Apoorva Mehta
Apoorva Mehta is the founder and CEO of online grocery delivery company Instacart.[1][2][3]
Early life[edit]
Apoorva was born in India and moved with his family to Canada in 2000.[4][5] He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.[6]
Career[edit]
Apoorva previously worked at Blackberry, Qualcomm, and then Amazon as a supply chain engineer, where he developed fulfillment systems to move packages from Amazon’s warehouses to customers’ homes.[1][7][8] In 2010, Apoorva left Amazon to start his own company.[9][1][10] Before founding Instacart, Apoorva started more than 20 companies.[11][1][12]
Apoorva founded Instacart in 2012[13] when he was 25 years old.[10] He was a participant in Y Combinator’s Summer 2012 batch.[14] Apoorva was initially rejected because his application was 2 months late[15], but he used his own app to deliver a six pack of beer to one of the partners at Y-Combinator’s headquarters after being rejected.[9] That led to him being asked in for a meeting where he explained Instacart to four YC partners; after the meeting, they extended an invitation, which Apoorva accepted.[16] Instacart was originally launched in San Francisco and since then has expanded throughout the U.S. and Canada.[17][18][19]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lien, Tracey. "Apoorva Mehta had 20 failed start-ups before Instacart". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "Apoorva Mehta, Founder & CEO / 2018 Speakers — Groceryshop - The Event for CPG Brands and Grocery, Drug, Convenience, Discount & Other Stores". www.groceryshop.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ Durbin, Dee-Ann (2019-05-15). "On the Money: More grocers are offering delivery". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ India, Press Trust of. "2 Indians in Forbes list of US' richest under-40 entrepreneurs". @businessline. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "Internet Trends Report: Why Immigration Is Critical To The US Tech Industry". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ↑ "Speaker Biography". CEO Summit. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ Carson, Biz. "The Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Could Have Killed Instacart. Instead, The Startup Is Stronger Than Ever". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ Business, Article by Sara O'Brien, CNN Business Video by Bryce Urbany & Jackson Loo, CNN. "Instacart CEO reaffirms IPO is 'definitely' on the horizon". CNN. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Entis, Laura (2014-07-22). "After Many Strikeouts, a $44 Million Home Run". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Martin, Emmie (2017-05-09). "30-year-old CEO of a $3 billion company shares leadership lessons learned from Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ Instacart's founder wants to make grocery shopping effortless - CNN Video, retrieved 2019-07-10
- ↑ Lieber, Chavie (2019-05-14). "Grocery startup Instacart says it's fixed its payment problems. This gig worker says it hasn't". Vox. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ↑ "First Republic: Apoorva Mehta". First Republic Bank. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "Top Companies". www.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "How Instacart Hacked YC". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "How Instacart Hacked YC". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "Apoorva Mehta, Founder & CEO / 2018 Speakers — Groceryshop - The Event for CPG Brands and Grocery, Drug, Convenience, Discount & Other Stores". www.groceryshop.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "With fresh funding, Apoorva Mehta is taking the grocery delivery fight to Amazon". The Economic Times. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ "Instacart looks north of the border". Supermarket News. 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
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