Empowering India’s Next Generation with Rajan Bajaj, Founder & CEO of Slice
In our latest episode of the Wharton Fintech Podcast, Anchit Gupta (WG’21) is joined by Rajan Bajaj, Co-Founder and CEO of Slice.
Slice is a fintech startup that offers payment and credit solutions for people between the ages of 18 and 29. Slice is one of India’s top card issuers and generated net profit within four years of its inception.
Rajan graduated from IIT Kharagpur in India and was a product lead at Flipkart Marketplace in its early phases. Rajan’s unit was the fastest-growing business unit and a major focus for Flipkart at that time. Afterward, Rajan founded Mesh, a furniture rental startup.
In this interview, Rajan shares:
- His journey as an entrepreneur and motivations for launching Slice
- The financial habits of India’s Gen-Z
- How Slice compares to other card issuers and financial institutions
- The future of digital payments in India and COVID’s impact
- Slice’s business model and the challenges of fraud, underwriting risk, etc. in India
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