Notes from the interview of Peyush Bansal (Lenskart CEO)

Notes



- Started in 2010

- Earlier they were doing 5 crores revenue with 5 crores Marketing / now it’s 50 crores

- The product needs to be significantly better for the people to switch

- Largest online eyewear company vs largest eyewear company

- If you are not available in other channels then advertising is going wasted / specially the people who are not comfortable buying online

- FMCG products run a television ad and the product is available on the next Kirana store

- 400 Stores in 90 Cities

- 60% Metros

- EBIDTA Positive

- Overall advertising is less than 10% of the revenue

- Growing 100% YoY

- 300 crores revenue in 2017-2018

- 500 crores in 2018-19

- If you can’t make your own store profitable then you can’t make franchisee store profitable

- Word of mouth has worked well for them

- Product and Service

- They measure Net Promoter Score / and for their home eye checkup business the NPS score is 60+ / it’s a separate profile business

- Acquired 2 American companies and 1 Israeli company

- Eventually they want to do eye exams using a phone

- The companies had patented products which Lenskart wanted

- Plans to go IPO in 2019, 2020

- Do not do too many things / have laser focus on a few things and go deep in those