Jani is co-founder and CEO of Lokal, a hyperlocal community app for the non english speaking population. In this episode he spoke about the founding story of Lokal, what the Y combinator experience was like, team structure at Lokal and monetizing the bharat user in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.
Topics:
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Founding story of Lokal
10:24 Validating the problem and solution
21:52 The Y Combinator experience
27:52 How are teams structured at Lokal
31:45 Managing the dichotomy of Centralized v/s User generated content
34:20 Sourcing the last mile of listings
35:03 Monetizing the bharat user
40:22 Getting to 50-100mn users
41:22 Making the next leap forward
42:57 Books and Podcasts
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