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EP 155 : Building for Bharat | Farid Ahsan (Co-founder & COO, ShareChat & Moj) | Consumer Internet

Feb 11, 2022
01:00:27

Farid is a co-founder and COO of one of India's largest homegrown social media apps, ShareChat & it's sister app Moj. In this episode he spoke about what it's like to building for the bharat user, what the bharat user is like, what it means to be socially responsible and how they're empowering creators from the farthest corners of India. 


Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:41 Building for the Bharat user in 2014

12:49 The "Aha" moment

18:03 Importance of having a support network

22:20 Going from 0-100mn users

34:34 Building a growth team

39:21 What is the bharat user like?

42:25 Being socially responsible

46:48 Principles for monetization

50:32 Empowering content creators across India

53:32 How do you think about competition

56:31 High level challenges Farid is solving

58:37 Books and Podcast recommendations


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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/frdahsan


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