Conversations with Equanimity Entrepreneur - Vikas Dosala, Co-Founder, FreshVnF

We caught up with FreshVnf co-founder, Vikas Dosala and got some interesting insights that we are sharing to inspire entrepreneurs, those who are in the midst of it all and can benefit from Vikas' experience 

Tell us about your best and worst days at work

Vikas: We take pride in being an agile setup and every time we break an audacious benchmark is the best day. We recently launched our services in a new geography to accommodate a customer’s desperate need overnight, and got it right first time. This has become an internal template to venture into a new geography. The worst day is the one where we have failed to delight our customers

What do you do when you’re not at work?

Vikas: Read, Learn, Unlearn and Repeat!

What is unique about your business?

Vikas: Our ability to squeeze hyper throughput out of what is considered an age old supply chain.

If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?

Vikas: It is not the first interaction but the first complete transaction with your peers, team, employees, business partners and customers that communicates your true self and hence, at scale, builds the culture. 

No agreement or promise can replace or correct this. 

How do you define success?

Vikas: Make our farmers and customers live their aspirational selves.

What is your favourite aspect of being an entrepreneur?

Vikas: Immediate Impact. The opportunity to iterate on myself. Explore and redefine the boundaries of everyone and everything in the ecosystem.

What book has inspired you the most?

Vikas: Incerto 

If you had the chance to start your career over again, what would you do differently?

Vikas: Nothing. Maybe I would have written more.

Where you see yourself and your business in the next 5-10 years?

Vikas: Impact the lives of a million farmers and customers beyond what they think is possible today.

Please share a story about the impact of your company that brought a smile on your face

Vikas: 04th September 2019. Every delivery that ought to have been delivered was delivered, wading through flooded streets and disconnected roads. We saw a different flood, one that was a stream of appreciation and thank you messages delivered on our phones by our customers. It was food that we were delivering.