Bootstrapping an AI Chatbot Startup with a Paycheck: Ankush Sabharwal, CEO of CoRover (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How much money did you make this way – from advertising? Ankush Sabharwal: It’s more money than we would have made through subscription. Sramana Mitra: Really? Ankush Sabharwal: There are four million users on the website and more in the app every day. Sramana Mitra: Traffic volume was very large. You just created

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Roundtable Recap: August 31 – Many Common Mistakes CAN Be Avoided with Good Strategy

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed a lot of issues around Positioning, Unit Economics, Business Models and TAM. Designs Crunch First up, we had Ali Rehman Khan from Peshawar, Pakistan, pitching Designs Crunch, a design service. Skori Then Charles Davey from England pitched Skori, an EdTech concept. Laika Next, Charlene Putney from Copenhagen, Denmark, pitch

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Bootstrapping an AI Chatbot Startup with a Paycheck: Ankush Sabharwal, CEO of CoRover (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You were working at Ultisource when you negotiated with Indian Railways? Ankush Sabharwal: Yes. In the appraisal cycle when I was about to quit the company, I got the highest rating. I was Group Manager that time. When you’re the manager’s manager, you hardly get the highest rating in appraisals.

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Bootstrapping an AI Chatbot Startup with a Paycheck: Ankush Sabharwal, CEO of CoRover (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Going back to 2016, there were these platform providers but there were also these other startups that had full applications. Where was the gap? What is the justification of starting CoRover at that point? Ankush Sabharwal: There were two sets of companies. One was the platform companies and the other is the implementation

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