India, May 29 -- How surprised would you be if you were told that the gaming platform WinZO, which commands a network of 250 Mn users in India and Brazil, might never have existed if it were not for Netflix's India entry in 2016 - as we learnt while speaking with the founder of WinZO, Paavan Nanda, about how it crossed the INR 1,000 Cr revenue mark in 5-6 years.

However, before he made inspiring revelations about the RMG giant's journey since its inception in 2018, he said something a bit more interesting that stuck with us, and we thought of beginning our version of the WinZO story with just that.

Well, Nanda, the founder of Zostel and ZO Rooms, wasn't specifically looking to build something in the gaming sector. It was only after his ...