New unicorn Slice is fast becoming a darling of millennials, Gen Z, and Tiger Global. Can the credit card challenger live up to its billing?
Rajan Bajaj, Founder & CEO, Slice
In 2015, Rajan Bajaj suddenly forgot the basics of dribbling. The young lad, who represented his home state Rajasthan in the basketball nationals during his school days, started playing like a rookie. After working for Flipkart for just 10 months, the IIT-Kharagpur grad quit his maiden job and started a fintech venture in January.
“I loved my job at Flipkart,” he confesses. What, though, he loved most was starting a business. Coming from a middle-class family in Alwar, Bajaj’s father was an engineer and mother a teacher. “Nobody in the family ever had any business background,” he recalls. The idea of turning an entrepreneur germinated during college. And for four long years, he kept mulling. “If I didn’t leave and start then, probably, I would have never done it,” he says, explaining why he short-circuited his stint at the product team of Flipkart. It was high time to make a shot rather than keep aiming at it. And he knew he could do it.