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A web infrastructure group grew from domains and hosting into a portfolio of internet businesses.
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Directi was founded by brothers Bhavin and Divyank Turakhia in 1998. It began by selling website hosting space and domain names, funded with a ₹25,000 loan from their parents. The creator says the founders recovered that amount within one month of operations, helped by a booming dot-com market and relatively limited competition in India at the time. The company later expanded into dedicated servers, colocation, web hosting, and shopping cart software, and absorbed other businesses. The creator describes exits for portfolio companies including ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, and BigRock to Endurance International Group in 2014, plus Media.net for $900 million in 2016; those exits should not be confused with Directi’s own revenue. The transcript does not give Directi revenue or customer count, so the qualifying traction evidence is the stated one-month recovery of startup capital. This is a portfolio-scale reference from a very different internet era. A modern founder can copy the narrow entry and disciplined reinvestment, not the historically favorable competitive conditions.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: The video creator reports repayment of the founders’ ₹25,000 family loan within one month. The transcript does not provide company revenue, and portfolio-company sale values are not treated as Directi revenue.