Bisu: Kuku FM Targets 10M Paid Users Next Year, 50M by 2025
Lal Chand Bisu · FUTURE of Indian Jobs, India Subscription Model & Life Lessons | Kuku FM Founder on The Neon Show · Sep 29, 2023 · at 30:40
Lal Chand Bisu, co-founder of Indian audio content platform Kuku FM, shares the startup's multi-year growth targets with host Siddharth Ahluwalia.
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“So our plan is to cross ten million paid users by next year, and then fifty million by twenty-twenty-five.”
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