The OG Tech Disruptor | Zeta

If you run a search on LinkedIn of all the people who’ve worked in a company called Directi and currently have the title of founders, you’ll get more than 250 results. This amazing company is like the PayPal of India.

Founder of Directi, Bhavin Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur who has been honored as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has been ranked as the 95th richest person in India in 2016, according to Forbes.

Building since his teenage years, Bhavin Turakia learned coding, built websites, founded six companies, and became a billionaire by the age of 20!

This episode traces almost a three-decade evolution of India’s startup landscape.

His largest venture is Zeta, a unicorn in banking tech which is a next-gen credit card processing platform. With Zeta, he intends to develop credit card programs by delivering new alternatives to old mainframe systems.

Bhavin speaks about his fascinating multi-decade journey as a founder!

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Some of the things he shared:-

• Selecting the right problem from the right space

• Ideation of Zeta

• Partnering with HDFC

• Organisation building

Additional readings:-

1. Interesting facts of Bhavin Turakhia, Founder and CEO of Directi

2. Startup Spin: Zeta’s Bhavin Turakhia and his journey to mastery

3. Blockchain is completely useless for core banking: Bhavin Turakhia of Zeta

4. Why Bhavin Turakhia believes a startup like Zeta will help revolutionalize the fintech universe

5. How Bhavin Turakhia’s Titan is Disrupting Business Email Market

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