EP 158 : Building Internet for Bharat - Jani Pasha (Co-founder & CEO, Lokal)

Jani is co-founder and CEO of Lokal, a hyperlocal community app for the non english speaking population. In this episode he spoke about the founding story of Lokal, what the Y combinator experience was like, team structure at Lokal and monetizing the bharat user in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:16 Founding story of Lokal

10:24 Validating the problem and solution

21:52 The Y Combinator experience

27:52 How are teams structured at Lokal

31:45 Managing the dichotomy of Centralized v/s User generated content 

34:20 Sourcing the last mile of listings

35:03 Monetizing the bharat user

40:22 Getting to 50-100mn users

41:22 Making the next leap forward 

42:57 Books and Podcasts

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janipasha/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Janilokal

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