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ShareChat’s Farid Ahsan says our goal is to build the WeChat of India

ShareChat’s Farid Ahsan says our goal is to build the WeChat of India

ShareChat CEO Farid Ahsan. Photo: Hemant Mishra/MInt

ShareChat, a local-language social media app that, if successful, could shape the social experience of millions of Indians coming online for the first time, still has a long road ahead. In an interview, chief executive officer Farid Ahsan talks about the challenge of scaling up a home-grown social app and the importance of the young start-up team reining itself in and focusing on building a business. Edited excerpts:

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