21 min

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

    • Entrepreneurship

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
 
Favorite book:
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

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
 
Favorite book:
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

21 min