Has Flock failed to fly?

Four years after its launch, Bhavin Turakhia’s Flock is going nowhere fast. With murmurs of layoffs and a lack of traction, does the company have a future at all?

Flock was conceived as India’s response to Slack, the popular business collaboration software

With the funding and Midas Touch of Bhavin Turakhia behind it, most imagined it was destined for great things

But at the turn of 2019, Flock hasn’t really achieved anything of note. Quite the opposite, in fact

While Turakhia is still bullish on the company’s prospects, can Flock really turn its fortunes around?

Forget the fables.

In real life, there are a chosen few folks who seem to possess the Midas Touch, a magical alchemical power that turns anything that they touch to gold.

One would be hard-pressed to dispute that Bhavin Turakhia has this quality.

Along with his brother Divyank, Bhavin bootstrapped not just one but two startups from inception to unicorn/near-unicorn status.

In 1996, the Turakhia brothers started Directi, a web hosting and solutions company. At that time, they were in their early teens.

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Sumanth Raghavendra

Sumanth is a serial entrepreneur with more than eighteen years experience in running startups. He is currently the founder of Deck App Technologies, a Bangalore-based startup attempting to re-imagine productivity software for the Post-PC era. Sumanth’s columns appear regularly in leading publications. He holds MBA degrees from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, USA.

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