Pratilipi seeded early catalog with public domain works and 150 authors
Ranjeet Pratap Singh · Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast · May 10, 2021 · at 5:31
Ranjeet Pratap Singh, co-founder and CEO of Indian storytelling platform Pratilipi, describes how they bootstrapped their initial content catalog.
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“When we started building Pratipi, the first two things that we did was one that we got some public domain content and like the definition of public domain would be different in different countries, but in India, it's basically once a writer passes away 60 years post that the content gets into public domain. So we basically got some of that content about, I think, 150 odd stories or 200 odd stories. The second thing that I did was I reached out to the 350 authors that I had already spoken with. And we basically proposed to them that, you know, we talked about this problem. Now we want to take a shot at solving this problem. So would you like to help us a little bit by giving some of your content words? It was still difficult, but we convinced about 150 of these authors to give some of their content on the book.”
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