Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.

Today's episode features an in-depth conversation with Phanindra Sama, co-founder, and former CEO of Redbus.  Redbus is an Indian online bus ticketing platform with over 180 million trips and $710 million GMV (in 2020). In 2013, redBus was acquired by Ibibo Group.

"Build In Public Podcast" is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights and lessons.

In this episode, Phanindra delves into how he overcame challenges when starting an Internet-based business in 2000s. Phanindra shares about acquiring customers, raising seed money, networking, and scaling the business to greater heights. He also shares his journey building bip.so, a workspace for web3 communities, and community with Discord-based access management and git-like version control.

• Phanindra’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/phanisama
• Redbus: https://www.redbus.in/
• Bip.so: https://bip.so/
• KP’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCznxl7a7q-2zqTVkR9oVvfQ
• KP’s Twitter: @thisiskp_
• KP’s Website:  https://www.buildinpublic.xyz/