Ankush Sachdeva

Co-founder & CEO, ShareChat · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ankush Sachdeva is the co-founder and CEO of ShareChat and Moj. He led parent company Mohalla Tech to unicorn status and is an active angel investor in consumer startups.

33statements → 21claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.76/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

2 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 16 not checkable as stated how the 21 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 18 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 8 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 21 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 16 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ankush argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Sachdeva: ShareChat micropayment revenue has surpassed its ad revenue

“It is now crossed. In fact, because it started later, but it is now crossed because it's growing much faster.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 33:12 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Sachdeva: Delhi High Court ordered ByteDance to stop scraping ShareChat

“We in fact went to Delhi High Court. If you can Google ShareChat versus Hello or ByteDance. In fact, Delhi Highcore told, told them to not do this, not scrape, and in fact, change their app.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 40:24 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ankush Sachdeva on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachdeva: Facebook post for cricket WhatsApp group drew 50,000 phone numbers

“In one of those groups, I saw there was a post which was Sachin ka photo with a WhatsApp logo. And the guy is saying, agar apko Sachin ka content chahiye if you want content around Sachin, put your phone number, and I, I'll add you to a WhatsApp group. And bel…”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 11:36 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachdeva: Daily UGC exceeded ShareChat's entire previous content history within one week

“Within a week of launch, the content that was uploaded every day was more than all the content like posted in the entire history of the product.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 17:31 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachdeva: ShareChat cut burn rate by 80% in 18 months

“We've managed to cut our burn to by 80%.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 37:24 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachdeva: ShareChat has 180M MAUs and Moj has 120M to 150M MAUs

“So ShareChat is about one eighty million MAUs. Moj is about one 21 50 million MAUs.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 38:05 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Disclosure

Sachdeva: Devotional Content Is the Second Largest Category on ShareChat

“Surprisingly, devotion is number two on, on shared chat. I think we also have a, probably a higher skew towards women than internet audience. And that sort of makes devotion bigger.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:03:06 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Disclosure

Sachdeva: ShareChat User Demographics Are 70% Men and 30% Women

“We would have about 70, 30. 70 men, 30 women.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:03:31 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Disclosure

Sachdeva: ShareChat received its first check of 50 lakh rupees in incubator

“I think once while we were on that journey, that incubator journey we got our first check of 50 lakh rupees.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 2:50 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Assertion Supported

Sachdeva: ShareChat's parent company is named after early real estate product Mohalla.in

“So if you look at our name, it's Mahala Tech Private Limited. That's because our first product was Mahala.in. It was a real estate product.”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 4:41 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachdeva: Half of IIT Kanpur signed up for Puppy Love despite negative pre-launch feedback

“Before launching, I actually talked to about 10 women. Because it was like, men will definitely fill a crush list. Will women participate in this? Yeah, and I talked to 10 women, all of them said, this makes no sense, we will not use the product. But to a surp…”

Ankush Sachdeva Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 8:46 How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj

The other half of the tape: Ankush Sachdeva's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 3 episodes on the Neon Show. every mention, with the transcript →

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