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Jagannathan: WhatsApp serves as India's equivalent to China's WeChat
“So, in many ways, Siddhartha WhatsApp in India is the WeChat of China, right? To a large extent, because it's really where we today are conducting our lives, right?”
Mayya: Scenes targets 250+ member communities and rejects developer groups
“We are for larger communities than Discord or WhatsApp.
The ideal size is two 50 plus.
If you have a community of two, two 50 plus scenes is the best option for you, right?
Below two 50, even we recommend go use WhatsApp, right?
The last kind of community we d…”
Low-Friction WhatsApp Ordering Succeeds Because Mothers Are Acutely Time-Starved
“Our biggest insight also in the segment that we realized that moms genuinely are starved for time, right? Because they're constantly running after kids. And just the fact that you have a WhatsApp number who you could just send out a message to saying that, you…”
Meesho initially thrived as the only tool for WhatsApp and Facebook sales
“They were using our app because we were the only tool to manage sales on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.”
Many Young Women View the Internet Exclusively as WhatsApp or Facebook
“Most young girls today don't know that they can use the internet to learn, to upgrade their skills, and to access opportunities that can really get them closer to their dreams. Most young women think it's, think the internet is for WhatsApp or Facebook.”
Anandan: Dunzo was operating purely on WhatsApp when I first invested
“For instance, you know Dunzo, where I was the first investor you know, when I funded them, they were basically a WhatsApp. They were using WhatsApp to help people in Bangalore kind of get things around them, right? And now today, when you look at it, it's beco…”
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…”
Jagannathan: 550M of WhatsApp's 2.25B global users reside in India
“And we're talking about out of two billion 2.25 billion WhatsApp users in the world. I mean, five hundred and fifty million of them are from India, right?”
The Moms Co. Sold Initial Baby Care Production Runs via WhatsApp
“And our entire first two batches that we had made for baby production were sold to these consumers because they were the ones who were the first people who came back and made the purchase and all of that happened Staying in touch with them for WhatsApp.”
Small Indian retailers drove repeat sales through WhatsApp groups before Meesho
“One thing which was very common across all of these guys was they were using social channels and mostly WhatsApp to reconnect with their existing customer base.”
Route Mobile Partners with WhatsApp to Offer Enterprise API Solutions
“Recently we launched the WhatsApp and the RCS API along the, and the Viber API as well. And now you get lots of QR code on your WhatsApp, you know, like, so we partner with WhatsApp to make sure we start building API solutions over WhatsApp API and we can star…”