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Everything ‘e’ won’t make you a millionaire. Just look at e-pharmacies

Visualisation by Sadhana Saxena via AI

Synopsis

The years 2020 and 2021 were the boom period for online pharmacy platforms in India. Everyone thought buying medicines online would become a habit for an average Indian. Investors were chasing growth at any cost. Then the ride turned.

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Theirs is not a typical 3 Idiots story. This trio went to IIT Delhi, completed their studies, and went their separate ways only to come back together to create what is today India’s top online pharmacy platform. That’s the story of Prashant Tandon, Gaurav Agarwal, and Vikas Chauhan. While Tandon and Agarwal were batch mates, Chauhan was their senior. In 2011, Tandon and Chauhan founded HealthKart. The idea was to raise awareness about general

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