Clock b Business Innovations concluded another successful X-preneur session at Kaffe Codes, in Thapathali, on Sunday.
Guest speaker for the 4th session of X-preneur was Khalti's Director Amit Agrawal, who shared his story and interacted with around 30 students and aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the event.
Agrawal shared his entrepreneurial encounters, how he got into entrepreneurship, his ventures, his hardships and how he overcame them. He also shared the story behind Khalti, his involvement, the journey, its growing team and vision to make Khalti a global brand. Also as the CEO of Janaki Technology Pvt Ltd, Agrawal shared stories about the journey of Pico Vico and Sparrow SMS.
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Further into the session, he talked about the mobile wallet market, ecosystem of online payment in Nepal, and the possibilities of mobile wallet in Nepali market. "Our vision is to grow a cashless market and increase people's productivity. New apps like Khalti will grow the momentum, and ultimately the knowledge about the system," Agrawal shared.
“Starting new ideas should not be restricted to country's already existing policies. There are ventures that have started sans the policies, but are doing the business, so idea is more important. First know where to work and once you start, it’s about your effort for that idea's sustainability," he said.
The event later extended to a Q&A session where Agrawal underlined that education is not restricted to university and tended to their queries about entrepreneurship. He also participated in an informal networking session with the participants.
X-preneur is a platform for youth, students, business enthusiasts and fresh graduates to have a chance to interact, network and learn from the experience of working entrepreneurs and vice versa.
"With X-preneur, we aim to bring the stories of such entrepreneurs who are working on their ideas and can give people their real time experiences not the defined perspective of what success is, so any aspiring entrepreneur can get the platform to learn," said moderator of the event and Clock b's representative for Event and Public Relations, Suraj Raj Pandey.
