Fani Sama

Co-founder, Bip.so · 1 appearance on the record.

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Phanindra Sama is an Indian entrepreneur best known for co-founding redBus, India's leading online bus ticketing platform, which was acquired by the Ibibo Group in 2013. He later served as Chief Innovation Officer for Telangana and co-founded Bip.so.

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Disclosure

Bip.so users are mostly Web3 projects paying in native tokens

“See right now basically most of our users are web three users and they pay using their own tokens.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 12:32 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Opinion

Sama: Bip.so pricing probably will not be per-seat

“The pricing cannot be per seat because it engages a larger audience. So it probably won't be per seat.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 2:52 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Disclosure

Sama invested $200k of personal capital with a $20k monthly burn

“So we have a burden of about 20 K per month. So I would have spent about less than 200 K so far.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 3:13 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bip.so generated 3,000 early workspaces but retains only 10 percent

“So totally we have about 3000 workspaces. But I would say that we have a retention of about 10%.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 4:35 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Disclosure

Sama: Bip.so has 10 full-time team members building the product

“We are 10 of us working on this full time, but there are all these other features that we need to build.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 11:09 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Disclosure

Bip.so was originally built for public builders, not Web3 DAOs

“I mean, BIP stands for built in public. We are not, we did not build this for web three. It's just that actually we built it as a workspace for people who are building in public because people are building in public.”

Fani Sama Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 16:46 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?	Oct 5, 2022	8m

Fani Sama

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