Ankush Sachdeva took over as ShareChat’s CEO in 2017 (File)
Ankush Sachdeva, Chief Govt Officer and co-founder of the Indian social media platform ShareChat is the youngest entrepreneur to be featured within the inaugural version of ‘2024 Hurun India Under35s’- an inventory of 150 distinctive Indian entrepreneurs who’re 35 years outdated or youthful.
A graduate of IIT Kanpur, Mr Sachdeva based ShareChat in 2015 together with two different founders- Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan. He did his B.Tech in laptop science and engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2015. Whereas learning there, he additionally interned at Microsoft in 2014 earlier than continuing to develop ShareChat.
This isn’t the primary accolade to Mr Sachdeva’s identify. Earlier, he was additionally featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia record in 2018 together with Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan.
ShareChat is a social media platform designed to cater the Indian viewers particularly. On the app, one can watch and share trending movies. The app additionally lets you join with different folks over chat rooms and can be utilized in 15 Indian languages.
ShareChat at the moment has over 500 million downloads on Google Play Retailer alone. Nevertheless, success did not come straightforward to Mr Sachdeva and his two co-founders. The trio began experimenting with completely different ventures collectively whereas learning in IIT Kanpur. It reportedly took them 17 tries to realize success with ShareChat.
Mr Sachdeva additionally constructed Moj, a brief movies platform which was supposedly India’s reply to TikTok, now banned in our nation. Moj has over 100 million downloads on Google Play Retailer.
Beginning out as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of ShareChat, Mr Sachdeva took over because the agency’s CEO in 2017 and led the corporate to change into a unicorn.
Hurun’s Under35 record additionally consists of Parita Parekh of Toddle and Isha Ambani of Reliance Retail who’re the youngest ladies entrepreneurs on the record. They’re each 32.
