How A Facebook Page Became A 600 Crore Company
Inshorts: How A Facebook Page Became A 600 Crore Company It was an ordinary Facebook page, created hopefully like the many thousand others that are created each day on the world’s biggest social network. It didn’t exactly aim to change the world. Its claim was relatively modest – it said it would provide news updates in 60 words. Three years later, that Facebook page has metamorphosed into a Rs. 600 crore company. Inshorts has never been a conventional enterprise. Its founders don’t exactly fit into the mould of media moguls who’d run a company with millions of monthly pageviews. They’re 23 year olds who dropped out of IIT who say they knew nothing about the media world. “We never really thought InShorts would take off the way it did, but our college allowed us the flexibility to take a year off, and we thought why not”, Azhar Iqubal disarmingly tells OfficeChai. Azhar was in his 8th semester at IIT Delhi when he along with Deepit Purkayastha and Anunay Arnav decided to start