Koo

company on 2 shows · 20 statements across 5 episodes · said 73 times in 7 episodes since 2021

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NEON SHOW Opinion
There Is No 'Twitter of India' Because Twitter Owns the Network
“Koo is a great product, great founders, ok. I would love to see them succeed, but there is no Twitter of India. Twitter of India is Twitter. Same thing with Facebook.”
K. Ganesh Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:14:01 75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
WTF Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo has integrated ChatGPT to assist content creators
“So we've integrated ChatGPT into Koo. To help creators.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna May 14, 2023 ▶ 10:22 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Assertion Partly supported
Radhakrishna: Koo reached 10 million MAUs at peak
“Look, at our peak, we were ten million monthly active users.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 28:44 Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: 80% of Koo platform content is non-English
“We're the largest language open network in the country where user generated content happens. You know, 80% of our platform is actually non-English.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 3:06 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Assertion Supported
Radhakrishna: Koo has surpassed 60 million global downloads
“So we've got sixty million plus downloads across the world. We've got presence in Brazil as well. So the two main countries that have deeper presence is India and Brazil today.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 3:25 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo plans to offer localized social media as a global service
“We actually want to take and give social media as a service almost to Germany, France, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan. So all of these countries should have an option to run a localized social media according to their definitions of freedom of speech, their definiti…”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 4:44 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Prediction Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: The US will allow Koo because India allows Twitter
“Because we allow Twitter to operate in India. US will allow coup to operate in US as well as long as the users love it.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 7:10 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo will partner with local tycoons and localize data hosting globally
“We will actually go and say, You know, we're happy to host all your data here and actually have local partners in every country, right? Why not actually have the biggest businessman of the country, the biggest media company of the country participate in making…”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 7:45 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: Koo earns more per active user than most Indian platforms
“When we've started monetizing, we've already seen that in four months, We make more money per active user than most other platforms that have started in India, right?”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 9:08 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo has never paid influencers to use platform
“So we're probably the only local social media which has the biggest influencers active, and we've never paid any influencer to be on the platform, right?”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 9:22 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Opinion
Radhakrishna: ShareChat serves bottom-of-pyramid users, limiting monetization
“In a share chat kind of environment, I think the language speakers who are at the bottom of the pyramid are on share chat, right? At least our learning has been that the more top of the pyramid you are, the more you monetize, right? The more bottom of the pyra…”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 12:34 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Prediction Didn’t hold up
Radhakrishna: Koo will be more profitable than any Indian social platform
“So I think all of these reasons put together, these have come together now and kind of like, you know, answered why we exist and why we will be more profitable than any other platform that has started off from India.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 14:53 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo's product is ready today to enter the US market
“Like, for example, Koo, like, if we get the right set of partners to go crack US, we're ready today as a product.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 21:05 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Prediction Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: Musk's strategy at Twitter is great for Koo globally
“Every move that Elon is taking might be good for the US and the US business, but for the rest of the world, I think it's great for coup.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 25:06 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo filtered out hires asking what the company could do for them
“We explicitly told people who are joining us saying, don't ever ask what the company can do for you. We're not in that stage where we can answer it. If you're in the mindset where you keep asking every single moment that you're working with us, What you can do…”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 25:57 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
NEON SHOW Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo has integrated ChatGPT into its platform
“Like we've integrated ChatGPT into Koo.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 46:10 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
WTF Opinion
Koo Founder: Musk's Twitter Moves Make Microblogging Sexier
“Elon is awesome. And then whatever he does makes news, and that makes microblogging sexier than what it was, and, you know, we're in the same space.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Mar 12, 2023 ▶ 3:54 #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Assertion Supported
Aprameya: The president of Brazil is on Koo
“The president of Brazil is on, on coup.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Mar 12, 2023 ▶ 4:51 #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Assertion Not checkable as stated
Koo Founder: App Went Viral in Brazil Because Name Means 'Ass'
“Which was the most important, which is why it became viral, is because, ah, coo means ass, in Portuguese.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Mar 12, 2023 ▶ 5:37 #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Insight
Aprameya Radhakrishna: 2D apps like Instagram and Twitter are already proto-metaverses
“Today we already disappear into a different universe. And that universe is based on our taste. Like if I want to get into the lifestyle universe, I'll open Instagram. Right? What people are eating, where they're going, you know, all of that is the universe of …”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Mar 12, 2023 ▶ 21:33 #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath

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