#NowPlaying "cold/mess" HARRY Sumit #OurSoundtrack saavn.com/p/song/english…

If 90% of the world's brightest weren't busy making selfie camera and addictive apps, we would have had breakthrough in vaccine discovery by now and what not. Time to rethink, how short term market gains is impacting innovation across the fundamental sciences?!

Applications to Lightspeed #ExtremeEntrepreneurs2021 are now open! 6 weeks of fierce mentoring for startups in India and Southeast Asia. Groomed by legends from the star-studded VC galaxy. Apply now at ctt.ec/w23md+

Makes me sad to see many bright folks around me working on very small market opportunities, just because they got an idea in a shower. 90% of building a large company is picking the right market, and still many folks spend the least amount of time there.

Audio has finally arrived in India from being a non-existent category in 2019 to now becoming a mainstream content format. Category creation is tough but we believed in the compounding power of rapid execution and iteration led feedback loops. We are now seeing the results (1/6)

Pocket FM is currently amongst the top #5 apps in India. Congratulations to the entire team at @PocketFMIndia. Our creator community has been instrumental in our growth by creating iconic audio shows, which are reaching similar scale to top video shows. A small thread 👇

(1/9)Welcome to Path2PMF. I and Anshumani Ruddra are launching a series of knowledge sessions focused on the 0 to 1 journey of consumer startups where we will be hosting founders and practitioners behind the largest consumer platforms to share their insights.

Pocket FM raises $22.4 million in Series B funding led by Lightspeed economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/p…

We’re thrilled to continue our support for the pocket FM- India team as they bring a wider range of audio content to their 40M+ users!🗣️📻 We’ve seen the app grow to become India’s Largest Audio OTT Platform, with over 100,000 hours of exclusive audio programming!

On my trip a couple of weeks ago, I was getting tested at the airport for international travel The lady taking the test was listening to something intently non-stop Turns out she was streaming stories from PocketFM, while I was expecting YouTube or Gaana Audio content is alive

At the airport I met a salesman who works with south 🇮🇳 based 'pickle & masala' brand Me: what's the yearly sales? He says: only 600 cr (😟face) Me: Boss...this is great...why u said like this? He says: 2000cr. toh hona acha Me:😲🙈 (humare founders ka khoon kab kholega😤)

This week’s India Today magazine on Bangalore Infrastructure

Pocket FM #Rewind2023 is now live! Over 75 billion minutes of streaming, with our listener community surpassing 130 million worldwide. 20 million transactions in 2023, closing the year with 2.5 million monthly transactions. A quick summary.

From Seed to Series D, Lightspeed has had the privilege to witness PocketFM's journey to $150M in revenue very closely. Their customer-centric approach and AI adoption have paved the way for global expansion. Read more about how they got here and what's next...

🔴LIVE @ 5:30 pm | Zero to $150M revenue in 2 years, 10M users in the U.S., $100M fundraise—Pocket FM creates a playlist of its own as love for audio booms🎧 Catch Shereen Bhan in a chat with co-founders Rohan Nayak & Nishanth KS on carving a new entertainment category 🎙️

Building a New Entertainment Category: From India to the World 100B minutes streamed. 200M listeners. 45M transactions. Pocket FM has redefined storytelling, pioneering audio series as the next frontier of entertainment.

Congratulations, Team Super Yoddha, on 2000 episodes and becoming only the third show in Pocket FM history to achieve this milestone. #sridhar #rivansh #mohit_trendster #superyoddha #pocketfm #audioseries #entertainment

You pick a colour, we’ll guess your mood, and throw some music at you 🤩 Let's have ourselves a little Holi celebration! 💃🕺🎉 Dash Charged by OnePlus | #Holi2018 #HoliwithSaavn wow.saavn.com/holi/hindi-son…