I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO of Inc42. Ask me anything!

@Acid On purpose, we have delayed the gratifications of launching these channels. While launching these channels is easy, maintaining and scaling them consistently is a tough nut to crack.

Our core philosophy is to strengthen our journalism and product. Having said that, never say no right, something is brewing ;)

Eager to see new updates soon!

@Sherlock007 Our core DNA at Inc42 has always been to carefully build everything that is backed by data and insights – so rather than focus on competition, we focus on doing what we do best and at the end of the day, all of us want to resonate with the right people and readers who read us.

Having said that, 10 more publications have a huge room to come and grow exponentially as the ecosystem expands.

As for AI, this is just a start, and we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg as I believe next 3 years will see whirlwinds of new tools and technologies that will emerge in the world of ai.

Change the way businesses and industries will operate at large including media, it will be a while before we as a media industry, learn how to operate sustainably using new AI tools.

But in general, from image designs to landing pages to creative marketing, to the editing of copies and even the creation of content will be largely automated in various forms and shapes.

Btw, we are coming to Bangalore soon with our GenAI Summit 202 as more and more conversations are needed around it.

Shameless plug but do check it out :) https://inc42.com/genai-summit/

@Careermode Well, we have come very far from 1000 odd startups to more than a lakh today, from 0 unicorns to 112 unicorns, more than $145 Bn funding the ecosystem has witnessed so the startups at large have become an established norm!

At the same time, we are going through a course correction and in the next two years, we will see the impact of it and I'm super bullish and optimistic on the Indian market.

The next five million jobs will come from startups! e s

The next 5 million jobs will come from startups 🚀 Thank you for responding

@salt Well, media is a tough business where on one hand you strive to generate constant pageviews and readership. On the other hand, you are trying to balance between journalism and sensationalism and lastly topping it up on your wisdom of what's right and wrong and usually as a journalist and as a newsroom you tend to dabble between all three, to find a perfect balance.

Cheers!

@AITookMyJob Not anytime soon but in the second half of this year we will see an equivalent growth of 2019 and funding will be back.

However, investors will be more cautious this time and will be more selective and choose companies and startups that are actually innovating or creating economic value.

Largely I don’t think LPs will pull money and deploy elsewhere because they play on long horizons and anticipate such nuances as part of their investment thesis.

But, I’m not a VC so take this with a pinch of salt :)

That makes sense, thank you for answering! I now understand a bit more about how LPs might perceive this period.

@Rizzy I think highlighting it is important to know what can be done better and discussing more fundamentals rather than vanity metrics.

At the same time focussing on bringing forth innovation and good work done by so many amazing startups and companies will make the Indian startup ecosystem better and a mature one at that.

And lastly, ask the VCs who funded them ;)

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@Eyeswideopen Firstly, I appreciate the feedback and definitely, we have to do a much better job in building this awareness.

Second, any paid content we do is mentioned as sponsored or "powered by" so to highlight the same. Lastly, at Inc42, the organic editorial stories vs branded content – ratio would be 95:5.

Amazing. The ratio itself is enough. Paid is of course necessary for monetisation. I am amazed with the level of organic stories. Keep it up!

Sawal puchne se pehle dekh liya karo atleast ki repeat toh nahi ho raha! Basic courtesy 🤷🏻‍♂️

@hehehe Sadly, no. Every startup would have to adopt AI in some form and shape to stay afloat