The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q And, uh, what has been your team size, uh, from your journey? Like if you can take us to the team size on the content creation from zero to one.

A Okay, so till I reached 300, uh, 50,000 followers, I only had one guy. Till I reached three 50 K, I only had one guy, that one guy would just edit my videos. I would record it myself and put, sit in front of a camera or in front camera, and that guy would edit for me. Sometimes he would record, it was just one guy, ok, from zero, because I don't know editing. I can't edit. I have never bothered to find out how this works. I don't want to do it because I tried once when I was in college and I failed miserably, so I don't want to do it. So I had only one guy. After three 50 K, I hired one manager. So she was doing all my scheduling, posting, finding out, taking care of brands, cracking brand deals, all of that. Then till we reached around, uh, I think, 700 K, five, 500 K. I hired one team who would focus on my YouTube and try to, so that there are two guys for YouTube. One is the copywriter. And so who would write descriptions, timestamps and everything. And one is the data that would try to find out all the data. Then we recently hired a thumbnail person who is now doing the thumbnails. These are three people. Then the fourth guy we hired is writing content for LinkedIn. So what we have now started doing is that whatever I talk, let's say this is the interview we're having. This is a podcast we're having. Um, so whatever I'll talk about here, he'll pick up a few pieces from here…

AI assessment note: “till I reached 350,000 followers, I only had one guy.”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q And how has your journey been of followership in the process of content creation? Like what was it? It took you to, let's say, zero to 10,010 thousand to 100,000, and currently 100,000 to one million. What, what are the various leverages you use? Was it team? Was it Focus on distribution.

A I'll tell you every time what was my strength. I'll talk about, let's talk about from zero to 50,000, okay? Zero to 50,000, I never bothered about followers. I was only giving speeches in different, different colleges, different countries, different places, and I was representing India and UN, and there I was giving speeches everywhere. And while I was giving those speeches, I recorded those speeches and put it out on my Instagram. So I never bothered for first three years to actually whether this can be a thing or not. So for my first three years, my biggest strength was my life and my speeches abroad, which was very fresh in India specifically. That, okay, there is some young kid who's going abroad and talking about and giving speeches. So that got me the initial followers. So that was the first trend. From 50,000 to 100,000, I used ads. I started advertising myself as the speaker. I was like, okay, hire me, call me for speeches, book me for your conferences, all of that. And just because I started promoting that a lot, people booked me as a speaker a lot that gave me from 50,000 to 100,000. This take me to like from zero to hundred K this took me four and a half years.

AI assessment note: “I'll talk about, let's talk about from zero to 50,000... From 50,000 to 100,000, I used ads.”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00

Q who are looking up to you, especially students these days, uh, want to start their career in content creation. And their aim is to at least earn, like, one lakh sustainably, sustainably every month. They can pay themselves, they can pay their team. What is the path that you can tell them that follow this and you can reach this milestone, the first milestone that you can sustain yourself now?

A Ok, so first milestone is first you have to understand anything which is in a passion economy. Ok, you have to understand this. It takes time. No matter what you're doing. You wanted to become a guitarist. You want to become an artist. You want to become a content creator. Anyone in a passion economy is going to take time. So you have to take at least two years in your hand, like minimum. That's what I would say. So for two years, you have to think about sustaining yourself and get really, really good at your particular art. And then if you're creating consistent content on any platform for next two years, you can grow. Just the only thing you have to focus is that when you're doing, when you're choosing a particular platform, you need to choose the platform on two grounds. Number one, which is the platform which is coming up.

AI assessment note: “you have to take at least two years in your hand, like minimum.”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85

Q So awesome. Awesome to know that, Raj. Raj, uh, share with, with me, you know, uh, how did you begin your journey as a content creator and when did you start?

A I'll tell you, I go back to the sixteen-year-old me, right? I wanted to become the rapper first. I never wanted to become an entrepreneur, or a speaker, or any one of that sort. I wouldn't become a rapper because I was very influenced by the few songs which I learned, because it was very cool to, to speak in English when I was in school. And I was the one, I was not able to speak in English properly till I reach, like till I got like 16 years old, 17, I was in my 11th or 12th. I was not able to speak to them, and I wanted to become that, but life happened, and I had to take the part of an entrepreneurial journey, and I started doing that, but as I'm doing that, I thought, what is that one thing which makes me stand out from other people? What is that one thing which will stand me, which will, which is like a unique thing in me when you compare it with me, the giants of the world, FMCG giants, let's say Unilever, or the ITC, or PNG, what's there? And that was the, they're telling stories to other people. I can tell stories myself. That is the only thing. Like there's no front face in Unilever who could come out and talk about that. I was like, oh, why not? I use this as a strength and started talking about how people can grow their business and how retailers and wholesalers would be better off when they buy from us rather than from any other company. So I started doing that, sta…

AI assessment note: “initially I started becoming speaker there. So that was still content creation.”

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