Ep 26 - Sanket Agarwal - Co Founder of Fleek

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Sanket Agarwal, Co-Founder of Fleek.

Sanket shares the story behind Fleek, a marketplace solving the inventory problem for the secondhand fashion supply chain, an idea that began while helping his mother-in-law grow her own resale business. He talks about going through Y Combinator, raising funding from Andreessen Horowitz and HV Capital, and why strategic investors who understand your industry matter more than the size of the cheque. They also discuss the difference between building a venture-scale business and bootstrapping, why founding teams of two tend to outperform solo founders, and why loving what you do has to come before the fundamentals.