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

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

 

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