Transcript of Mr Pranesh Chaudhary- CEO and founder of ZunRoof https://www.zunroof.com/
1. How much studies and efforts have you done for
successfully working on this project
https://www.zunroof.com/ ZunRoof's
all-IIT founding team has a great mix of skill sets and 25 years+ of combined
experience from having worked across the world in sectors as varied as
Financial Services to Construction Management to Power Products' R&D. With
this background, we started developing our apps and hardware’s as early as Q1
2016. At the same time, we started talking to residential and SME roof owners
to understand the electricity-related issues they were facing.
Having left our cushy
corporate and consulting jobs, we prepared for close to 6 months on explainer
videos, marketing materials as well as on the tech that differentiates our
solar installations. We also went ahead and signed vendors and procurement
partners in this time so we could keep our costs down and pass on the
engineering benefits to our clients.
Our
apps can be divided into design and delivery verticals - the over-riding aim is
to minimise the entire "going solar" process to a few clicks for the
residential and SME rooftop owners. App provides you a detailed analysis of
your electricity bill, shows you how your roof will look post solar installation.
The app helps our engineers perform shadow analysis of your roof to figure out
the best area on your roof to put solar.
Then,
the app provides the clients all the delivery updates when their system is
getting delivered. Another very important part of the app starts
post-installation when it provides you notifications and charts of solar
production. It becomes your investment dashboard for solar.
- Could you talk about some events that
influenced you to become what you are today?
We envision ZunRoof https://www.zunroof.com/
to be the single largest clean-tech brand for consumers - "any issue
that you have related to energy or electricity, we will solve it". We have
started by utilising un-used roofs for putting solar and as we understand more
and more pain points for the consumers, will keep adding software and hardware
solutions for them
- What will give you a sense of
fulfillment in your professional life?
Born and having lived in
a small town of Bihar till my teenage days with very limited means, two aspects
of our lives were crystal clear to me - one, make your own way in the world
(hence entrepreneurship) and two, whenever electricity came back after hours,
everyone got happy, so electricity/energy is an important dimension in our
lives (hence solving electricity issues).
Hence, when Sushant (my
friend for 10+ years and IIT Kharagpur batchmate with huge solar and product
dev experience) and I started putting our entrepreneurial plans on paper, we
zeroed on this. We need to make the world a better place while we are here and
we need leave the world in an even better state than we found it - ZunRoof https://www.zunroof.com/ allows us to do both as
every kW of our installation is equivalent to planting 154 trees
- Now a days many applications are coming
in market, how different is ZunRoof https://www.zunroof.com/
from those.
When
I feel I am contributing net positive value to anything I am doing in
professional capacity (it could be a product dev sprint, a business deal, it
could be a client on-boarding thing or an appraisal of a colleague), I feel
happy and sleep nicely in the night. When I am able to promote any of our colleagues
to the next level that gives me a sense of satisfaction too of having witnessed
and been a small part of someone else's professional accomplishment.
See,
I am restless for success 24/7 but I love this journey we are on with my team -
every small milestone makes me refreshed and more focused
- What was in your mind when you developed
this app
Oh, like chalk and
cheese - there is no app in the solar segment, even at 10% of the technical
nous and finesse we have in our app. VR, Image processing, analytics, IOT -
none of these are buzzwords for us, these are actual cutting-edge tech
solutions we have applied in our app. Our operations is completely automated
too with our internal apps which has meant we have been able to scale with
speed with minimal leakage risk
- Do you think your project will get
success
Solving solar rooftop
puzzle for all residential and SME clients, automating the end-to-end client
experience in a few clicks.
- How many team members are there who all
are working on this project in both back end and front end?
100% - we are growing at an
insane speed and there is a whole world of untapped rooftops and consumers with
electricity-woes that need solving
- Till now from which region you are
getting maximum response
We are scaling like
crazy and from a 20-member team at the beginning of 2018, we are already 70+
folks, spread across different functions.
Delhi NCR is where we started and are clearly the market leaders in
every city of the region. Within 4-6 months, we expect to say the same for 7+
states in India
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