Meet ShareChat’s Ankush Sachdeva: Building India’s social media and betting on GenAI

In 2014, Ankush Sachdeva and his co-founders spotted something odd: people were sharing their phone numbers in public forums to be added to WhatsApp groups that circulated jokes, memes, devotional songs, and more—in regional languages. Thus, was born ShareChat, a social media platform built for India’s non-English-speakers.

Soon, ShareChat and video-sharing platform Moj—its two products—had more than 200 million monthly active users and an annual revenue of ₹800 crore. The company turned cash flow positive in February 2024, a rare milestone in India’s social media landscape.