Pepperfry co-founder Murty dies of cardiac arrest in Leh

Ambareesh Murty, 51, who passed away late Monday evening in Leh after suffering a cardiac arrest, was remembered as a key architect, mentor and resilient leader of furniture startup Pepperfry.

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Tributes poured in from colleagues and investors following his untimely death. Murty, who lived in Mumbai, is survived by his wife and a son.

"Gautam Thakar and I hired him (at eBay). He was one of the smartest, hardest working, analytically sharp people we know. Very entrepreneurial and resilient," Avnish Bajaj, founder and managing director at Matrix Partners said. Bajaj had also founded Baazee, which was sold to eBay in 2004. An engineer by profession, Murty is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.