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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q You have a own unique space, right? There are companies like Daily Hunt, ShareChat, which are also serving the same set of audience. Can you share it? How does the positioning work for Koo in the audience mind?
A So I think, you know, every platform, one has a particular use case, right? And for that use case, you will attract a certain crowd from the population. Right. So for example, let's take Facebook as an example. Facebook is a network of family and friends. So when you open Facebook, You are expecting updates from family and friends. Now Facebook isn't really updates from family and friends. It's random content. And that's why it's kind of like losing relevance. Instagram is for lifestyle. Like what you eat, where you go, who you hang out with, all of that is on Instagram. Twitter is for thoughts and opinions. Daily hunt is an aggregator of news, and you will go there to consume all your news in different languages, whichever language you like. Share chat is more entertainment. You know, it's a bunch of WhatsApp forwards relevant today that is being circulated on that network. Coup is a thoughts and opinions network, which is attracting people who want updates from people that they follow, right? So each one has a different use case, right? And we are different because we kind of like attract the top of the pyramid. So the influencers are on Coup. English folks are on Coup. And the premium language folks are on Koo, right? 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 bee…
AI assessment note: “Coup is a thoughts and opinions network, which is attracting people who want updates”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And you do that by reading the market better each and every time?
A No, I wouldn't take so much credit for myself, but yeah, it's a team, team effort, right? Like, you know, investors on my board basically have a much broader view because each one of them is dealing with at least 10, 20 more companies. And they will get a sense faster than a single company will get a sense. Now, trusting their judgment as well, right? When they first raise their hands and say, boss, be more conservative. Don't go. You have to respond to that and become more conservative. So I wouldn't take all the credit for myself. It's also a lot of signals from people who care about the company who will keep pushing you in the right direction.
AI assessment note: “No, I wouldn't take so much credit for myself, but yeah, it's a team”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 3.70
Q And how has your relationship with VCs changed, right? Because now you have seen everything, I would say, in the last decade.
A They've really played an important role in my life, at least. As I said, as a first time entrepreneur, There is no other way that I could have built Taxi for sure. So, tremendous respect for the ecosystem of money that is available. It's become much better, you know, all of those things. 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 company is always going to add a little more character into investing rather than, you know, being very theoretical about it.
AI assessment note: “What I would have liked is more people who have run real businesses to be VCs.”
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D 3 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.25
Q But was there a self-doubt while starting coup that, hey, people are going to judge me more harshly as a second time entrepreneur now. Should I start carefully? Should I start right?
A As in that's fear, right? Like if you let that fear set in, then You know, having a successful first stint becomes a handicap for your second stint, right? The natural progression should be with your every startup, you should become more confident and more risk-taking, right? You don't have to prove too much anymore, right? Your ability or whether it's for yourself, your family, your extended friend circle or the public, you've already proven once. Now, if you're going to start with Self-doubt, then that actually makes you worse off than your first startup. Right. So you shouldn't be there. So I think building a social network is the toughest business out there because it's not harder than this. Yeah. It can't get harder. It's not a, just a product game. It's not logical. Like in taxi for sure, if you sent a cab and you dropped somebody, they will give you money. It's a very closed experience here. You don't know, like one, the product is the body. The community is the soul. Ok, so who accepts you to be part of this community is actually giving life to this product. Like, how do you convince the most influential people of a country, of a language community to be part of your network? Like, there is a playbook for that. And even if you make it a playbook, let's say you go and pay people to be part of the community. The day you stop paying, they will leave. So it can't be transac…
AI assessment note: “So I think building a social network is the toughest business out there”
