Hari Menon (Big Basket CEO) Wiki, Biography, Age, Career, Family, Girlfriend, Images and Facts

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About Hari Menon

Hari Menon is a Co-founder and CEO of leading online grocery store named bigbasket.com. Big basket is a India’s largest online grocery shopping store of Innovative Retail Concepts Private Limited having headquartered in Bengaluru, India. Along with Big basket he is also a co-Founder of Symphony Industrial A. He worked with many companies as a CEO such as Serus Corporation, Timeli and Tumri.

Bio/Wiki

Full Name	Hari Menon
Nickname	Hari
Date of Birth	1964 ^[1]wikipedia
Age	57 years old
Birthplace	Bandra West, Mumbai, India
Nationality	Indian
Profession	Businessman
Zodiac sign / Sun sign	Not Known
Famous For	Big Basket CEO

Physical Stats

Weight (approx.)	Kilograms- 62 Kg Weight in Pounds- 136 lbs
Height (approx.)	Centimeters – 157 cm Inches – 5 ft 4 in Meter – 1.57 m
Shoe Size	Not known
Hair Color	White
Eye Color	Black

Family

Father Name	Not Known
Mother Name	Not Known
Brother Name	Not Known

Personal Life

School	Lawrence School, Lovedale
College	Birla Institute of Technology and Science Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Educational Qualifications	B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering MBA
Debut	Fabmart
Years Active	NA

Awards

N/A

Relationship & more

Wife Name	Shanti
Marital Status	Married

Favorite Things

N/A

Money Factor

Net Worth

$507.5M

Career

After completing his studies, He started his professional career I in 1990 by joining Consilium as a Software Engineer. He was part of his first company for 3 years. After that for another 3 three years he worked as Manager at Accenture. He worked at Aspect i2 Technologies as a Senior Director or product management for almost 1 year after that he acted as a product strategy and marketing at Aspect Development. He was Vise President of Corporate Strategy and Marketing at Bristlecone In from 2003 to 2004. This is company is founded by himself. As he wanted he finally started his journey as a entrepreneur in September 2004 along with some others. He founded a his start up named Tumri. He worked as a CEO there but unfortunately in 2012 company was acquired by Collective Media and then become a imp part of Adobe.

At the same time he along with Sudhakar, Vipul Parekh, Ramesh and Abhinay Choudhari founded “BigBasket” on October 2011. After this success of big basket they got $150 million as an investment in March 2019 from Mirae, Alibaba Group and CDC Group and so valuation of his company goes over US$1 billion. They acquired micro-delivery company DailyNinja in March, 2020. Recently in Feb 2021 TATA group acquired a 68% stake from BigBasket which is worth of around ₹9,500 crore.

Before starting BigBasket Hari and his five friends started a “Fabmart”. This was a online store same as Amazon and Flipkart. During first year of this startup there were no transactions and so they could not generate enough revenue. So they need to close this. But they didn’t gave up they started “Fabmart” physical retail chain of a grocery store. We can say that it was physical version of Fabmart. This was Inda’s first online-to-offline retail store. They also merged with Trinethra which was also a grocery retail chain. They expanded Fabmart to 300 stores across Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. After this business went sucessful they all founded Big Basket. ^[2]IMDB

Some unknown facts about

Big Basket faced cyber attack that affected the data of over 2 crore customers which includes customers name, email IDs and their IP address. Lated all these data were on sale on the dark web.
He is very hardworking and has the mindset of Never Give Up.
He had served Planetasia as the Country Head of India. Planetasia was among the first Internet services providers in India.
Big Basket choose Shah Rukh Khan as their brand ambassador.
At present Big Basket completing 50,000 orders a day with average ₹2500/per order.
They acquired delivery start-up named Delyver for strengthen its delivery service. Delyver’s founder has been included in team of management in Big Basket.