Category Visionaries

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

Broadcast on:: 15 Sep 2023

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

Favorite book:

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