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Swapnil Shinde, Zeni

Joining me is someone whose own mom was disappointed in him. Swapnil Shinde’s mom was an entrepreneur herself and did not want him to quit his job to become an entrepreneur.

But he did quit his job and he went on to launch and sell a few companies. We’ll talk about how he did it in this interview.

Today, Swapnil is the founder of Zeni, bookkeeping and accounting service for startups.

Swapnil Shinde

Zeni

Swapnil Shinde is the founder of Zeni, bookkeeping and accounting service for startups.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me as someone whose mom was disappointed in him, mom was an entrepreneur herself. He decides he’s going to quit his job, get his brother to quit his job.

And they go start a business. And his mom was worried about them and was a little disappointed. Meanwhile, they ended up doing well for themselves. They created this one company. that let people stream Bollywood music. Am I right?

Swapnil: Yup.

Andrew: What was the name of the company? How do you pronounce it? Dean Ghana. And then he, uh, they sold the business to RDO.

He went on to create a next company also with his brother Messi. Mezze is like, imagine if you could imagine if you had the ideal uh sistant and you could just message him and say, I need to fly from here to there. I have these flight, this flight...

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