Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar
Business:Entrepreneurship
E105 - Building India's Largest Consumer Social Company w/Sharechat's Ankush Sachdeva
In this Episode, I speak with Ankush Sachdeva, Co-Founder & CEO of Sharechat.
Sharechat is India’s leading social media platform, building for the next billion Internet users of India.
Started in 2015 by a group of IIT Kanpur graduates, Sharechat is dominating the consumer social landscape of India, having a total of 300 Million Monthly Active Users across both Sharechat and Moj, their short form entertainment application.
Valued at $5 Billion Dollars as of its last round, Sharechat is building a truly long term organization and is one of the first companies from India to recruit global talent.
I sat with Ankush, its Co-Founder & CEO to decode how they have gotten here. Through our conversation we discuss the nuances of building a company at scale, the traits of rapid iteration, the culture at Sharechat and decode the future of content & content creators.
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About our sponsor: Stride Ventures, which is one of India’s leading Venture Debt Funds, becoming synonymous with innovative startup financing in India. Stride provides comprehensive solutions, going beyond venture debt, to cater to distinctive challenges faced by high-growth and inherently strong businesses, backed by leading institutions. The fund has a portfolio of over 60+ diversified companies, having deployed more than Rupees 1500 Crore to date. In just over two years, Stride Ventures has emerged as the preferred venture debt lender in the Indian Ecosystem. To know more about this phenomenal fund, visit - https://strideventures.in/
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