A job seeker’s story about how Zepto co-founder asked for his CV goes viral on social media

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Yash Acharya,a job seeker recently shared his story on X (formerly known as Twitter) that how a co-founder of online grocery delivery platformZepto reached out to him directly for his CV. Later,Acharya’spost went viral on the social media platform. According to Acharya’s post, he had applied for the role of a product design intern at Zepto.However, he received a reply through an email with the subject line: “You’d be a great fit for this Delivery Boy (Mumbai) role at Zepto!" The job seeker has posted a screenshot of the email he received from the company, and wrote: “Par maine to product designer ke liye apply kiya tha (But I applied for the role of a product designer)." After the Acharya’s post came to the notice ofZepto’sco-founder and CTO Kaivalya Vohra, he then reached out toAcharyadirectly and asked him to share his CV.

“Hey, saw your tweet. Could you send over a resume/portfolio?" Vohra wrote. The post has garnered more than 4,000 views on the X.

A user commented, “The tweet reached the right place." Some users also congratulated Yash Acharya. Zepto was founded in 2021 by Stanford University dropouts Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra. It started quick commerce as a service enabling speedy delivery of groceries to consumers.

Headquartered in Mumbai, Zepto delivers over 6,000 grocery products in 10 minutes through a network of delivery hubs across the country. In April this year, the quick commerce company had announced the appointment of crypto-currency platform CoinSwitch Kuber’s Ramesh Bafna as its new chief financial officer. “Ramesh is a best-in-class e-commerce CFO and he will build a best-in-class finance team at Zepto.