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For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 1:03:13 Roopa Kudva So if you look at Ranjit Pratap Singh of Pratilipi, for example, you know, I mean, he was a voracious leader and he said, why do I have to struggle so much 3 times in the scene
Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- ▶ 39:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You are also one show with Prime, uh, and OTT is there, then other platforms like ShareChat is there, Pratilipi is there, right?
Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 1:31 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Ranjit Pratap Singh, founder Pratilipi. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Ranjit, um, can you share about, you know, what Pratilipi is before we dive into your journey and Pratilipi's journey? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So we launched Prathlipi Comics, which is like the comics version of Prathlipi.
- ▶ 2:28 Ranjeet Pratap Singh We launched Prathlipi FM, which is like audio version of Prathlipi.
- ▶ 3:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Ranjit, if you go back in time, uh, uh, what was the persistent personal pain point which led to the birth of Prathlipi for you? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:13 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So even though the reason of starting Pratipi was deeply emotional and personal, obviously before kind of deciding to work on this for the next 10 years, 15 years, I wanted to figure out if this is a problem worth solving.
- ▶ 5:31 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So I think, uh, when we started building Pratipi, the first two things that we did was one that we got some public domain content, uh, and like the definition of public domain would be different in different countries, but in India, it's…
- ▶ 7:49 Ranjeet Pratap Singh For the literature product, uh, we have about 345,000 writers now, about, uh, 4.5 million stories published on the platform, and about twenty four million monthly active users.
- ▶ 7:58 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, on the comics front, we have about 800,000 monthly active users. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, and we have about, uh, I think about 400 fifty-odd comics is, uh, right now, which are, like, published on Tripi, which are running series.
- ▶ 8:18 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, Kathleepi FM currently has about 202 150,000 monthly active users, and we have about, uh, 35,000 audio stories and audio books, uh, that are there in nine languages, I think.
- ▶ 8:53 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So the way we think of Prathlipi essentially is that, uh, different verticals are run very largely independently.
- ▶ 10:45 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Um, then coming to Prathlipi Comics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:52 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Now we have to understand that when we started building Pratipi in India, UGC was not really a real thing.
- ▶ 15:45 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, so I just kept on borrowing money, and I kept on putting in principio, and it kept on kind of growing well.
- ▶ 17:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, so tell us about, uh, you know, the entrepreneurial culture at Brasilipi, like it's been praised a lot from external, uh, VCs, the talent outside, which now is wanting to enter. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, so we understand that in startups in general, and at a place like Patlipi in particular, where we are so, uh, focused on like building Patlipi as a great place to work at, uh, that means that we have to give people a lot of exposure,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So like a lot of things that we do at Patlipi, essentially, we just took from either free charge slash grid or from Flipkart, and we just tried to make it even like even better or even more extreme. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:27 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So Prathlibis culture has always been that like, there are no individual targets or OPRs or goals. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Uh, Prathlipi Comics? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia How do you treat failure at Rathalipi?
- ▶ 29:53 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So for example, it's entirely possible that one channel that works for IBM doesn't work for Patlipi.
- ▶ 30:00 Ranjeet Pratap Singh What works for Patlipi FM doesn't work for Patlipi comics and all of those are fine.
- ▶ 30:00 Ranjeet Pratap Singh What works for Patlipi FM doesn't work for Patlipi comics and all of those are fine.
- ▶ 32:31 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Like, it's not about text or literature, and this is something that I've been saying since we started building The Philippi, and at that time obviously most people did not believe me, but the basic premise was always about storytelling,…
- ▶ 33:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And probably FM launch also, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:55 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So I actually decided that, you know, Prathlipi is unlikely to be going to acquire them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So one of Prathlipi's actually, so Prathlipi's first core value is always try to do right thing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Similarly, I was giving an example of Sachin who, like, started as an Android developer and then did a bunch of students before starting Patlipi Comics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, what are the some things if you can share that didn't work out at Prathlipi?
- ▶ 42:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Not for Pratilipi, but, but for Ranjit?
- ▶ 46:12 Ranjeet Pratap Singh Part of Pratilipi's culture again.
- ▶ 46:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It's been very insightful, uh, talking to you today, sharing the mind of Ranjit and inside how Pratilipi
Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- ▶ 31:55 Rahul Chowdhri And I, I think I once tweeted, uh, you know, we were very close to, and we would have loved to come into this company called Pratilipi, amazing founder, amazing company. 2 times in the scene
Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
- ▶ 9:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We've also raised the follow on series B rounds like Prathilipi small case. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia If you can share, you know, how is Ranjit of Pratilipi or Vasanth Kamath of small case responding or reacting to the COVID 19. 2 times in the scene