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Shaily Garg, CEO and Founder of GlobalFair: $22 Million Raised to Create the Future of Cross-Border Procurement

Author
Front Lines Media
Published
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Episode Link
https://categoryvisionaries.podbean.com/e/shaily-garg-ceo-and-founder-of-globalfair-22-million-raised-to-create-the-future-of-cross-border-procurement/

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Shaily Garg, CEO and Founder of GlobalFair, a building materials procurement platform that's raised $22 Million in funding.


Topics Discussed:


  • Shaily’s background as a civil engineer from a very small cords manufacturing family in India, and how this background helped her start GlobalFair

  • Why Shaily admires billionaire entrepreneur Ambani Mukesh

  • How GlobalFair is using technology to make cross-border procurement as easy and hassle-free as buying from a next-door neighbor

  • How Covid contributed to the launch of GlobalFair

  • The importance of agility and finding the right customer and business model, and why storytelling is a skill every fundraiser must have


 


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