Subodh Kolhe

Building Awaaz - local video news & information platform for India. Live across 70+ districts with 2M+ downloads. Highest rated Local news app on Google Playstore.

This inspires me -> Do Things that Don't Scale

My first exposure to startups was while working with an early stage startup, Foodkhoj while I was still studying back in college. This experience has moulded my life in those early days.

Later was introduced to Edtech while working with LurnQ team where I learnt great lessons about the changes in education sector. The same place made be believe the importance of open sourcing knowledge.

I also interned with the exciting Traffline team and worked on the user acquisition and brand building for the startup. The pleasures of working on something real time and having people use it at the very same time pushes one towards eliminating errors.

I assisted a course-programme at BITS Pilani Goa Campus on Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation. This course has been instrumental in creating awareness about entrepreneurship and providing early stage teams a platform to transform their ideas into businesses.

I worked closely with startups and also wrote about many exciting ones at YourStory.com. I am always interested to have conversations related to the new trends in the world of tech startups particularly in on-demand and location based vertical.

At CREO, we were focused in building great mobile experiences for first time smartphone users and later we got acquired by Hike Messenger.

Working on payments and platform features at Hike has been a great journey. Building at scale with cross geography teams has been the highlight for me. Launched Ola, bus ticket and recharge-like micro-app features on Hike Platform and Total OS.

Beer and Old Monk junkie. Proud of being a student at BITS Pilani University.