Parr: SMS Search Platform ChaCha Raised $60M and Handled 1.7B Monthly Questions
Sam Parr · We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit · Jul 19, 2024 · at 6:32
Sam Parr looks up historical operating and funding metrics for ChaCha, an early human-powered mobile search engine.
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“So it was launched in 2006. It went bankrupt in 2016. And so basically it was a service and I didn't actually realize any of this, but it raised six million dollars, including from Jeff Bezos. And they had 5000 freelance guides, meaning people who they hired. And I would send a text message to ChaCha... It looks like they actually had raised up to sixty million dollars and the, and they had something like 1.7 billion questions a month of people that, that people were asking.”
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