STORY OF ELEPHANT EGGS

One day, a boy starts selling
“Elephant Eggs.”
People in the mall go crazy:
Elephant eggs??
And that too for ₹7,
while chicken eggs cost ₹8.
People tell their friends,
a crowd gathers.
The boy is actually selling chicken eggs,
but he has registered the brand name
“Elephant Egg.”
People say,
“Name doesn’t matter,
it’s still a chicken egg.
If it’s ₹8 outside and ₹7 here,
why not buy it?”
The boy sells 10,000 eggs daily.
He incurs a ₹1 loss per egg
and ₹0.50 operational cost per egg.
So every day,
he sells 10,000 eggs
but suffers a loss of ₹15,000 per day.
After one month,
the boy approaches a Round-1 investor.
He says,
“Look at my new startup.
I sell what nobody else sells—
Elephant Eggs for ₹7.”
The name Elephant Egg
triggers something in the investor’s mind.
Still, he asks,
“Why should I invest in your business?”
The boy replies,
“Sir, in 30 days
I have sold 300,000 eggs.
My revenue is ₹21 lakh per month.”
The investor says,
“But you’ve already made a loss of ₹4.5 lakh.”
The boy says,
“Sir, the future belongs to Elephant Eggs.
I want to make this a unicorn,
that’s why I’ve come to you.”
The investor says,
“No problem.
Sell me 0.1% equity of your Elephant Egg.”
The boy agrees:
“You can take 0.1% equity for ₹1 crore.
You can pay me after 10 years.”
Deal done.
The investor takes 0.1% equity
for ₹1 crore
and gives a post-dated cheque.
As soon as the deal happens,
the investor—
who owns several newspapers
and has influence over startup news channels—
runs a headline:
“A 16-year-old’s company valued at ₹1,000 crore!
Meet this young entrepreneur with a revolutionary idea.”
The boy becomes a celebrity on social media.
Small vloggers and bloggers dance around him, saying:
“Dreams take flight,
an egg shop,
an identity of your own—
truly great!”
For the next three months,
eggs continue to sell at ₹7.
Revenue numbers are loudly advertised.
The boy gives TED Talks,
monetizes his YouTube channel.
Using investor money,
he gets celebrities to review
Elephant Eggs.
Then comes the announcement:
Elephant Egg IPO is coming.
Gen Z goes crazy.
Everyone wants to become Warren Buffett in two days.
Discussions everywhere:
“Don’t miss this IPO
or you’ll regret it.”
News runs nonstop.
Vlogs are made.
Videos flood the internet.
Everywhere, one echo:
₹1,000 crore valuation!
Elephant Egg is called
“The Egg of the Future.”
It is said that at this valuation,
the company will raise ₹700 crore
and sell indigenous elephant eggs
from Dubai to New York.
The IPO is over-subscribed.
₹700 crore comes in.
70% equity is sold to the public.
The investor and the boy
meet quietly in some corner across the Yamuna.
Out of ₹700 crore,
they take out ₹650 crore.
They split ₹25 crore each,
buy homes in Dubai,
and start making motivational reels from there.
The remaining ₹650 crore
is put straight into fixed deposits,
earning ₹40 crore interest per year.
Meanwhile,
100 franchise owners
who paid ₹10 lakh each
for Elephant Egg selling rights
sell eggs at ₹10 in 100 malls.
But now,
nobody buys eggs for ₹10
when they get them for ₹8 elsewhere.
Sales fall.
Profits fall.
Losses rise.
Share prices crash.
Layoffs begin.
Stores shut down.
Franchise owners cry:
“We’re ruined!”
Only one company-operated outlet remains—
one employee,
selling eggs at market price.
After one year,
the balance sheet is prepared:
Employee salary: ₹4 lakh
Outlet rent: ₹4 lakh
Eggs purchased: ₹2 lakh
Eggs sold: ₹2.1 lakh
Electricity & cleaning: ₹15,000
Taxes: ₹10,000
👉 Business loss: ₹8.15 lakh per year
But Income from Other Sources
(from FD interest):
₹40 crore
👉 Net profit before tax:
₹39.91 crore
Company assets: ₹650 crore in FD.
After taking their share,
the founder and investor publish news:
“Elephant Egg is profitable.
Thank you for your support.
We are expanding to Southeast Asia.
Apply today:
₹10 franchise for ₹8 lakh—
₹2 lakh guaranteed savings.”
The public goes crazy again.
Elephant Egg shares rise again.
The founder withdraws ₹10 crore
and opens a samosa shop in Chandni Chowk,
leases it for ₹50 lakh per year.
He invests more money
in government undertakings,
some here, some there,
so next year
Income from Other Sources
becomes ₹45 crore instead of ₹40 crore.
If you feel this never happens in the real world,
then go from Ola Electric to OYO,
pay via Zomato using Paytm,
order a samosa,
and think peacefully tonight
whether you’ve ever encountered
a real story written from such a script.