ET 40 Under Forty: Adapt to change and persist for stability
40 Under Forty.
The panel, moderated by Amit Jain, managing director Carlyle India Advisors, and comprising past and current A-listers of the ET 40 Under Forty, laid threadbare the fundamental tenets of leadership and how it is evolving in a volatile and disruptive world while ensuring generational diversity.
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Sharing his success formula, Aadit Palicha, the 21-year-old CEO of Zepto, who was part of the ET 40 Under Forty 2024 final list, said, “Act like a scrappy founder, talk to customers and you figure out something that most people would take many years. We like operating at the lowest level of details, getting into the nitty-gritties — in there, we find insights and crazy learning that can actually give us a 5, 10, 15x in our business, and that’s how our business started.”
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