{"id":1149,"date":"2022-02-07T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T09:36:09","slug":"peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyush Bansal &#8211; Man Who Brought Absolutely Different Vision To Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peyush Bansal is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India known for their dedication, effortfulness and ability to achieve what they aimed for. Currently making hypes as one of the Shark Tank India judges, Peyush is the Founder and CEO of Lenskart, a reputed business selling spectacles, lenses and other eye gears online and offline.<\/p>\n<p>Peyush has been a keen observer throughout the Shark Tank India season 1 and has supported some very innovative start-ups. Let\u2019s learn some interesting information about Peyush.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Personal Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peyush Bansal was born on April 26, 1985, in New Delhi, India. He completes his early schooling from Don Bosco School and then graduated from McGill University as an Electrical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in entrepreneurship from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>This 36 years old Shark Tank India judge is still a bachelor and focusing on his entrepreneurial journey as of now. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Career<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peyush Bansal started his professional journey with the reputed firm Microsoft Corporation in the USA as a Program Manager. After working for a year at Microsoft, Peyush set his mind to start his own business venture and at the age of 24 he launched his first business \u201csearchmycampus.com\u201d. After this venture, Peyush started 4 other businesses (Flyrr, Watchkart.com, BagsKart.com, and Jewelskart) before finally launching LensKart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Peyush Bansal\u2019s Business: Lenskart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peyush started Lenskart in 2010 with co-founders Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi. The company\u2019s product lines include products like glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses. Primarily an online entity, Lenskart now have over 500 offline stores including franchisees.<\/p>\n<p>The total valuation of Lenskart is estimated to be INR 37,000 crore+.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Peyush Bansal\u2019s Controversies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peyush has been a safe player always. He has maintained a safe distance from controversies. However, he made national headlines recently for pitching Lenskart on Shark Tank India season 1. He will be seen in the finale episode of the program, recreating his investment pitch from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peyush Bansal is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India known for their dedication, effortfulness and ability to achieve what they aimed for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,260,268,269],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peyush Bansal - Man Who Brought Absolutely Different Vision To Entrepreneurship |<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peyush Bansal is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India known for their dedication, effortfulness, and ability to achieve what they aimed for.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peyush Bansal - Man Who Brought Absolutely Different Vision To Entrepreneurship |\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peyush Bansal is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India known for their dedication, effortfulness, and ability to achieve what they aimed for.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/werindia.in\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/werindia.in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-07T07:54:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-05T09:36:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Peyush-Bansal-Man-Who-Brought-Absolutely-Different-Vision-To-Entrepreneurship.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"573\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"847\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@werindia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@werindia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Blog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/peyush-bansal-man-who-brought-absolutely-different-vision-to-entrepreneurship\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Blog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a755aa511c9e77abfa00a7b61c7ee70d\"},\"headline\":\"Peyush Bansal &#8211; 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