What would have happened if Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Sairee Chahal had decided to get the license for starting Facebook in India back when it was just a college network? We wouldn’t have had two of India’s most successful startups - Paytm and Sheroes.

Sairee Chahal is one of the kindest, most accomplished and successful founders who has managed to build a women’s only social network in India, Sheroes which boasts of over 15 million users. In this episode, she lays out the principles of building a social network - what goes into running one and why she’s not a fan of men boasting of their cooking adventures during the lockdown as an accomplishment on Twitter.

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