Hey Everyone,
I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO at Inc42. We are India’s #1 startup media & intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup leaders & operators through our incisive reporting and industry-leading executive programs like FounderX.
I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Inc42, why we’ve built FounderX and more!
Ask Me Anything :) I’ll be back at 5PM and answer all your questions!
Inc42 is a great media house, but I haven't see a lot of audio and video content from Inc42, do you have things planned or are you working on it?
Would love to see podcasts from Inc42 with legacy founders or startup founders which are not active in public domain; like Shreeharsha, Asish Mohapatra and a lot more!
@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!
In the world of Your story, entrackr, morning context, the Ken and many more...What's the usp of inc42?
With onset of AI and media groups already using midjourney and similar tools, how do u see media industry shaping up in long term?
Best of luck 🍀🤞🍀
@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/
Hi Vaibhav
Big fan of Inc42’s reporting Reporting on the ecosystem for so many years, how do you look at it now? Are you optimistic on Indian startups?
@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
Hi @Vaibhav_Vardhan I'm @salt
Just wanted to ask about what do you think about other similar companies in this space that tend to get very negative and sensational with their coverage?
I have noted that Inc42's coverage tends to be more factual than others and I really appreciate reading articles with more balanced PoVs. Just want to congratulate you on the company you're building.
There's more to achieve obviously. Stay on the right path and I'm sure Inc42 might be the next Bloomberg in the making.
@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!
Hey Vaibhav, congratulations on completing a decade-long journey at Inc42!
How do you think the current period of record-high global drypowder will conclude? Will it conclude with another huge funding "summer" like 2021? Or will all this waiting make LPs pull their capital and start exploring other asset classes?
@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.
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