Gaurav Taneja jokes he ‘learnt nothing’ from Shark Tank India experience, makes sarcastic comment about ‘pyaare’ Anupam Mittal after face-off

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Gaurav joked that generally, he learns from every experience in life. “But wahan jaake kuch nahi seekha,” he said, as the crowd laughed. On the show, Gaurav and his co-founder asked the ‘sharks’ for Rs 1 crore in exchange of 1% equity, valuing their company at Rs 100 crore. They also claimed to have made sales worth Rs 1 crore in the first hour of their launch. But several ‘sharks’, mainly Anupam, found holes in Gaurav’s attitude and approach to his business. Anupam said, “When I started, I was a lot like you. I thought of myself as a star, but when you think of yourself as a star, you think you’re infallible, you can’t allocate time in startups, you have to be there all the time… It’s not that I don’t trust you, but I trust in Indian entrepreneurship, and they have so much energy, so much passion, they won’t let a part-timer like you win. That’s the reason I’m out.”

At the IIT panel, Gaurav said that he appreciated Peyush Bansal’s comments about him. “Peyush said that he still works so hard even though his company has reached such heights. And I was standing there and just absorbing what he was saying. You can lose your sense of reality after looking at your numbers, but it’s important to ground yourself.” Gaurav couldn’t secure a deal on Shark Tank.