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.
2shows
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.
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.”
Radhakrishna: Short-Form Creators Cannot Hold Attention in Three-Hour Movies
“The guy who entertains us for 30 seconds on a short video app, right, you will never watch him in a three hour movie. You only Shah Rukh Khan can do a three hour movie and get our attention.”
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 …”
Radhakrishna: Meta Will Lose the Metaverse Because It Cannot Build In-House
“Another reason why I think meta won't do well in the metaverse is because everything that they've done well after Facebook is something they bought.”
Aprameya: Metaverse will dominate and increase friction of in-person meetings
“Yeah, I think metaverse is definitely the future. Some of the most important things will go there and, you know, we'll, we'll probably become less human because the friction to actually meet somebody in person will be much higher.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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?”
Radhakrishna: Top-tier brand awareness acquires vernacular communities for free
“You almost get to build those deeper communities for free if you become more well-known at the top.”
Aprameya: TaxiForSure misread market sentiment by focusing on unit economics too early
“So I think what we didn't do is read the market Sentiment well. Like we kept talking unit economics and more conservative on our growth strategy compared to the competition.”
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.”
Radhakrishna: No Indian company exists among global consumer tech giants
“So when you say global tech, it's Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, Microsoft, everybody else. There is no Indian name there.”
Radhakrishna: Bangalore Won't Rival Silicon Valley Without Backing Global Problem Solvers
“Like, the more investors who take crazy bets of defining the future, the more India will be able to solve world problems. See, if you want to be a global technology destination, right, if you want Bangalore to replace SFO or Palo Alto is Palo Alto, SFO is SFO,…”
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.”
Radhakrishna: Personalization Will Let People Live Unaware of Mainstream Stars
“So personalization, as he said, is going to go up. People will, you know, you live in a world of sports. And never come out and you'll not even know who Shah Rukh Khan is.”
Radhakrishna: Koo has integrated ChatGPT to assist content creators
“So we've integrated ChatGPT into Koo. To help creators.”
Radhakrishna: Koo reached 10 million MAUs at peak
“Look, at our peak, we were ten million monthly active users.”
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.”
Radhakrishna: Koo has integrated ChatGPT into its platform
“Like we've integrated ChatGPT into Koo.”
Radhakrishna: Reached Peak Weight of 115kg While Building TaxiForSure
“115 was my first startup. Taxi for sure. So I would eat at home. I would eat another breakfast after I reached office because I would have gone at 8:09 o'clock. Then I would eat two lunches because I would have taken my lunchbox and I had a team lunch or some,…”
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Angel Investor & Entrepreneur | 1 | 28 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the Neon Show → |
 WTFLEDGER | Angel Investor & Entrepreneur | 3 | 18 | 50% 1/2 | full record on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath → |