MobiKwik founder Bipin Preet Singh has revealed that he moved out of a home in South Delhi after launching the digital banking platform in 2009 as a result of the hire was too excessive. As an alternative, Singh and his spouse moved to Dwarka, the place the property charges have been way more reasonably priced.

“We had an condominium in South Delhi earlier, however then we discovered that South Delhi was approach too costly – to pay the hire and operating a startup. Then we moved to Dwarka,” Singh stated within the Grasp’s Union podcast. 

Singh shared particulars of how the couple used their home as MobiKwik’s first workplace. “That condominium the place we lived on hire, I nonetheless bear in mind it was Rs 10,000-12,000 hire. It was the primary workplace, in a approach, of MobiKwik. As a result of that is the place we employed the primary individual,” he stated.

Singh additionally shared that he needed to get up each morning at 7:30 am to open the door to an enthusiastic worker that they had employed. 

“Within the drawing room we had these tables arrange. We employed one other loopy man who needed to come back at 7:30 within the morning, so he used to ring the doorbell. You’ll open and he would come and begin working. So that is what it takes. Mainly, to wager all the things that you’ve, your life, your all the things to start out one thing by yourself,” Singh stated.

Singh stated it was simpler now to start out an organization than it was earlier. “If you happen to’re constructing an web startup, the amount of cash that it’s worthwhile to simply make a product could be very small immediately in comparison with what it was as a result of the price of know-how has come down dramatically,” he stated.

He additionally identified that as founders one doesn’t want to take a look at prime establishments alone for expertise. 

“India could be very lucky to have an enormous provide of engineers. I come from IIT, the purpose that I am making is I really hardly ever rent from IIT. I’ve really employed most of my engineers not from IIT. We go to all schools as a result of I really feel the fervour and starvation and expertise is democratic, it isn’t concentrated solely in IITs. Individuals who get into IITs, after all they’ve cracked one take a look at and so they’re smarter. However in that peer group there are different challenges. Most of them find yourself pondering in the identical approach – ‘yeh karna hai, aise karna hai, do Grasp’s, MBA, XYZ’.”

“However in the event you go throughout India and see the range of individuals. [In] the size and breadth of this nation, there’s expertise all over the place. So, you could find nice engineers. You’ll be able to construct it with very much less amount of cash,” Singh stated.

Singh and his spouse Upasana Taku based MobiKwik in 2009. The platform boasts 140 million registered customers as of 31 March 2023.