Meet Azhar Iqubal, co-founder and CEO of Inshorts, a news platform that summarizes 60-word stories in 60 seconds or less. Presently he has turned into another adjudicator of the startup pitching TV series, Shark Tank India Season 3.
The business unscripted television show turned into an extraordinary hit with its most memorable season in 2021 where startup originators pitch the purported sharks (financial backers) for subsidizing. Anupam Mittal, Peyush Bansal, Ashneer Grover, Aman Gupta, Vineeta Singh, Namita Thapar, Ghazal Alakh and CarDekho pioneer Amit Jain have been into Shark Tank India as a shark, and presently Ritesh Agarwal, Deepinder Goyal and Azhar Iqubal will join the jury of sharks in the third season.
Azhar Iqubal is a fruitful business person whose excursion began from a Facebook page and afterward incorporating Inshorts into one of the most utilized news applications that offers short and fresh news in only 60 words.
On the Google Play Store, Inshorts has more than 10 million downloads. It is a popular news app because it summarizes news from a variety of national and international sources.
Startup Story of Azhar Iqubal
Learning at IIT Delhi, Azhar Iqubal chose to begin a Facebook page called News in Shorts in 2013 alongside his IIT colleagues Anunay Arunav and Deepit Purkayastha (who was then at IIT Kharagpur). The thought was straightforward, to give news outlines in a simple language with connections to unique sources, and soon it started to get interest from perusers.
A couple of months after the fact, they were owned up to a startup gas pedal program, TLabs, supported by the Times Web bunch where they gleaned some significant experience about business venture and building an effective organization.
Which began as News in Shorts, before long got renamed as Inshorts and perusers started to vigorously utilize their efficient contribution. Their app summarizes all of the news in sixty or fewer words, and who doesn’t want to stay up to date on global events and save time by reading less?
“The possibility of Inshorts is to re-associate the age with the propensity for understanding news. Realizing that this age is consistently in a hurry, we ensure that the client stays refreshed,” said Azhar Iqubal in a meeting with Asia Educate Day to day.
Today, the Inshorts application has in excess of 10 million downloads and individuals use it as a go-to news stage to get refreshed with the most recent news in a short and succinct configuration. Presently, Inshorts is worth crores of rupees and the excursion of the prime supporters is additionally motivating.
After the progress of Inshorts, Azhar Iqubal again began an organization named Public in 2019 which is an area based informal community and news stage. With more than 100 million downloads and north of 1,000,000 recordings being made consistently, it has likewise turned into India’s biggest area based informal community giving the most recent updates of your city through brief recordings.
Sharing the insight about turning into an adjudicator on Shark Tank India, Azhar considered his startup process on the virtual entertainment stage, Instagram.
He said, “A decade prior, as I was venturing into my 20s, I went out on a limb and exited IIT Delhi to begin Inshorts. The last ten years has been a wild ride, brimming with energy. Those energetic evenings brought about leaving an imprint in the web-based entertainment industry. After 10 years, as I step into my 30s, we are today quite possibly of the biggest player in our space with 1.2 crore Indians utilizing our applications consistently.”
“On Shark Tank India Season 3, I need to tell the young people of India that where you come from and regardless of whether you have a degree doesn’t make any difference; what is important is whether you have yearning, discipline and concentration. What’s more, assuming that you have it in you, I’m here to help you in satisfying your enterprising dream,” he added.
