Aprameya Radhakrishna
Angel Investor & Entrepreneur. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Aprameya Radhakrishna is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the cab-booking service TaxiForSure, which was acquired by Ola Cabs, and later launched the multilingual social platform Koo.
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4appearances
46statements
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4said about them ↓ Everything Aprameya Radhakrishna said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Radhakrishna: Instagram will eclipse YouTube within 10 years by sharing revenue
“So if Instagram starts doing what YouTube does, YouTube will be forgotten. They can actually make more money. So this I'm talking five, 10 years. The guy who doubles down on incentivizing or sharing most revenue with creators will win.”
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…”
Radhakrishna: The world would not care if Flipkart or BYJU'S vanished
“In the grand scheme of things, if these two companies didn't exist, the world would still go on, right? That's our best, you know, most valued startups, and the world doesn't even care whether they exist or not. Apart from the shareholders of those companies, …”
Radhakrishna: Access to real-time human data will decide future AI winners
“How much real time content every day Do you have access to will define future success. There's not past, past everybody has.”
Radhakrishna: A content company solely in India cannot make billions
“It's not like you're gonna make billions of dollars doing a content company in India.”
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.”
Radhakrishna: Musk's monetization strategy retreats Twitter to the US top 1%
“The more Elon Musk Goes into monetization. He's retreating back to US. In the US also he's retreating back to the top one percent.”
Radhakrishna: 99% of Indian users will never pay Twitter for verification
“For countries like India, Where even the top one percent will think twice about paying Twitter that money. The rest of the 99% will never pay.”
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.”
Radhakrishna: UPI will disrupt Visa and Mastercard internationally
“So fintech, like UPI and, you know, everything else that India has developed, I think is amazing. We're already integrating with the Singapore and Middle East, and so I think that is a welcome change. It will disrupt Visa, MasterCard, you know, all of these.”
Radhakrishna: AI will eventually become a direct part of humans
“Right now, it's still an outside interface. It will become a part of us at some point in time, and we will choose to do it or not to.”
Radhakrishna: Top 0.1% Who Master AI Prompting Will Define World Rules
“There'll always be a small percentage, right? If it's, you know.1% of the world, that's that. You know, percentage that will, you know, know how to prompt engineer, you know, all of those things. And they will be very, very relevant for the future. They will d…”
Radhakrishna: Fake accounts are unique to open-follow networks like Twitter
“That is a unique problem of open networks. So it's not necessary that this is a problem on, this is a major problem on a Facebook, LinkedIn, or WhatsApp. But it is definitely a problem on Instagram and Who and Twitter.”
Radhakrishna: BeReal is a fad that will fail long-term
“But I think that's a fad and nobody really wants to go and see people being real. In the long run. No, it's not fun.”
Radhakrishna: Decentralized creators will replace traditional centralized media superstars
“I wouldn't invest in traditional media anymore. I think democratization of, the superhero won't exist. For too long. I think decentralized superheroes is the way to go. Whether you take entertainment or sports or news or whatever it is.”
Radhakrishna: India is one of very few nations capable of building domestic social media
“The ability for a country to be able to run its own social media is very important. There are very few countries that can build their own social media. India is one of them, right?”
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.”
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?”
Radhakrishna: Koo's model will work identically across international markets
“Like the model in India will work in Brazil or Germany or Indonesia, you know, all the same. You just need to go and build the networks independently.”
Aprameya: TaxiForSure could have become India's consolidated super-app
“We should have, as in we were the first ones to do hyperlocal stuff, right? So we could have done a Dunzo, we could have done a Swiggy, we could have done all the groceries, delivery startups, all that put into one company is valuable. Right? Like, in Southeas…”
Radhakrishna: Swiggy offers a better user experience than Careem or Grab
“The Swiggy experience is actually better than the Kareem experience or Grab experience.”
Radhakrishna: Southeast Asia and Middle East are more profitable tech markets than India
“Rather than going to Southeast Asia and Middle East and everything. But those markets actually are more profitable, more, you know, there's a lot more money there to be made.”
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…”
Radhakrishna: Typical MBA VCs Lack Operational Nuance for Investing
“What I would have liked is more people who have run real businesses to be VCs. Because there's a lot of nuances and nitty gritties that, you know, the typical MBA VC doesn't get. And even with 20 company experience, I think, you know, the nuances of running a …”
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