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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
Today is the grand finale of The Ken’s Case Competition 2024, and so this edition of The Nutgraf is a bit shorter than usual.
Two months ago, when we announced the inaugural edition of The Ken’s Case Competition in partnership with Zerodha, we posed a straightforward, intriguing question to students at B-schools all across India:
“You are a quick-commerce company. You have a billion dollars. How will you win?”
And the students answered our call, in numbers that exceeded our expectations. 450 teams from 32 colleges registered for the case competition. Nearly 100 teams submitted detailed solutions in the first round. 46 teams were longlisted and sent even more detailed answers to follow-up questions. The solutions were innovative, detailed, and even outlandish. It took us over a week of difficult decisions to figure out which of these incredible teams deserved to make it to the final round.
This is a story of tens. In just a few hours, ten teams will each make a 10-minute presentation (appropriately!) to a panel of elite judges pitching their solutions on how to make 10-minute delivery companies win.
And one of them will win the grand cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.
If you want to read the bold, innovative solutions that our top ten teams came up with, you can read that here.
Oh, and you can check out the entire case competition page here. There are several posts about how all the teams approached their solutions, which companies they picked, and how these solutions tell us the story of what’s happening with 10-minute deliveries in India.
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