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Radhakrishna: ShareChat serves bottom-of-pyramid users, limiting monetization
“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 been that the more top of the pyramid you are, the more you monetize, right? The more bottom of the pyra…”
There Is No 'Twitter of India' Because Twitter Owns the Network
“Koo is a great product, great founders, ok. I would love to see them succeed, but there is no Twitter of India. Twitter of India is Twitter. Same thing with Facebook.”
Radhakrishna: Koo will be more profitable than any Indian social platform
“So I think all of these reasons put together, these have come together now and kind of like, you know, answered why we exist and why we will be more profitable than any other platform that has started off from India.”
Radhakrishna: Musk's strategy at Twitter is great for Koo globally
“Every move that Elon is taking might be good for the US and the US business, but for the rest of the world, I think it's great for coup.”
Radhakrishna: The US will allow Koo because India allows Twitter
“Because we allow Twitter to operate in India. US will allow coup to operate in US as well as long as the users love it.”
Radhakrishna: Koo filtered out hires asking what the company could do for them
“We explicitly told people who are joining us saying, don't ever ask what the company can do for you. We're not in that stage where we can answer it. If you're in the mindset where you keep asking every single moment that you're working with us, What you can do…”
Radhakrishna: Koo earns more per active user than most Indian platforms
“When we've started monetizing, we've already seen that in four months, We make more money per active user than most other platforms that have started in India, right?”
Radhakrishna: Koo has never paid influencers to use platform
“So we're probably the only local social media which has the biggest influencers active, and we've never paid any influencer to be on the platform, right?”
Radhakrishna: Koo's product is ready today to enter the US market
“Like, for example, Koo, like, if we get the right set of partners to go crack US, we're ready today as a product.”
Radhakrishna: 80% of Koo platform content is non-English
“We're the largest language open network in the country where user generated content happens. You know, 80% of our platform is actually non-English.”
Radhakrishna: Koo plans to offer localized social media as a global service
“We actually want to take and give social media as a service almost to Germany, France, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan. So all of these countries should have an option to run a localized social media according to their definitions of freedom of speech, their definiti…”
Radhakrishna: Koo will partner with local tycoons and localize data hosting globally
“We will actually go and say, You know, we're happy to host all your data here and actually have local partners in every country, right? Why not actually have the biggest businessman of the country, the biggest media company of the country participate in making…”