Q: What is ShareChat?

ShareChat is an Indian social media platform designed to enable users to share and discover content in their regional languages. It supports over 15 Indian languages and provides features such as: User-generated content. Short videos. Community-specific interactions.

Q: Who is Ankush Sachdeva?

Ankush Sachdeva is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShareChat . He is an entrepreneur and engineer who, along with Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan, founded ShareChat in 2015 to connect India’s diverse linguistic and cultural communities through social media.

Q: What is Ankush Sachdeva’s vision for ShareChat?

Ankush envisions ShareChat as a global leader in social media for regional and vernacular content, continuing to expand its user base and innovating in content discovery, artificial intelligence, and monetization strategies.

Question 1

What is ShareChat?

Accepted Answer

ShareChat is an Indian social media platform designed to enable users to share and discover content in their regional languages. It supports over 15 Indian languages and provides features such as:

User-generated content.
Short videos.
Community-specific interactions.

Question 2

Who is Ankush Sachdeva?

Accepted Answer

Ankush Sachdeva is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShareChat. He is an entrepreneur and engineer who, along with Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan, founded ShareChat in 2015 to connect India’s diverse linguistic and cultural communities through social media.

Question 3

Why did Ankush Sachdeva create ShareChat?

Accepted Answer

Ankush and his co-founders identified a gap in the market for social media platforms tailored to India's vast linguistic diversity. ShareChat was created to provide a localised and inclusive platform for users who are more comfortable in their native languages than in English.

Question 4

What is Ankush Sachdeva’s vision for ShareChat?

Accepted Answer

Ankush envisions ShareChat as a global leader in social media for regional and vernacular content, continuing to expand its user base and innovating in content discovery, artificial intelligence, and monetization strategies.

Institution	Degree	Duration
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)	2011 - 2015
Somerville School	N/A	N/A

Position	Organization	Duration
Cofounder & CEO	ShareChat	Nov 2017 - Present (6 yrs 7 mos)
Cofounder & Chief Product Officer	ShareChat	Jan 2015 - Oct 2017 (2 yrs 10 mos)
Internship	Microsoft	May 2014 - Jul 2014 (3 mos)
Coordinator	Programming Club, IIT Kanpur	Apr 2013 - Apr 2014 (1 yr 1 mo)

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Ankush Sachdeva