How Aayush Agarwal Built Snabbit Into India's Fastest-Growing Home Services Startup?

In this fireside conversation at MESA School of Business, we sit down with Aayush Agarwal, Founder & CEO of Snabbit, the hyperlocal home services startup that went from 400 daily orders to over 40,000 in under a year. Aayush shares the raw, unfiltered story of building Snabbit from scratch in 2024. The vision, the grind, the early mistakes, and what it really takes to create a new category in one of India's most fragmented markets. In conversation, Aayush opens up about: The idea behind Snabbit and why he bet on hyperlocal home services How Snabbit operates across 140 micro-markets with 15,000+ service professionals Scaling from zero to 1 million monthly jobs Fundraising journey - from seed to Series D ($112M raised) Expanding to India's top 10 metro cities Lessons for first-time founders and B-school students Chapters: 00:00 - Trailer 01:05 - Aayush's Introduction & journey 01:43 - Aayush's story of joining Zepto 03:29 - Snabbit's growth strategy 10:07 - The idea of starting a househelp category 13:07 - 3 Key insights 14:15 - What makes a category worth betting on? 18:25 - Fundraising with the right captable 20:12 - How to go from 0 to 1 as an entrepreneur? 26:14 - Key learning of building a new category 26:55 - Conclusion Follow us:   / mesa.school     / mesaschoolug     / mesa-school-of-business