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How will the next billion users interact with the internet? - Jani Pasha: CEO of Lokal (YC-backed)
- localization
- emerging markets
- language access
- internet accessibility
- startup innovation
- global expansion
- developing economies
About this episode
Jani and I talk about how his company helps people in India who don't speak English leverage the internet to reach their goals. This is one of the episodes of the series I'm doing on the rise of innovation outside of Silicon Valley.
This company is particularly interesting for me because there are linguistic borders to the internet and Lokal is breaking them down for people who don't speak English in India. There are a lot of languages in India. I'm trying to do the same with my podcast with the languages of Spanish, Portuguese, and French and will soon be publishing those episodes on other channels.
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Episode transcript
Johnny is starting a company that helps people all over India who don't speak English gain access to the information that they need and that is not currently in their languages. It's a really interesting idea. And being here in Latin America and Medellin, it also probably could work for
And imagine in Southeast Asia as well, because there's about a billion users who are coming online very soon. And these billion users don't really have a place. They don't have a place where all of the rest of us already do have a place. And so there's going to be something new that would be built for them. And since they are also the ones who are probably going to have the emerging opportunities of the next hundred years, it's probably going to be a big opportunity. And Johnny is onto it. So I'm really excited to present this episode. This is part of the new series that I'm doing about the rise of innovation outside of Silicon Valley. I have a thesis that most, not all, there are some people in Silicon Valley who are aware of this, but most people in Silicon Valley have become blind to what the rest of the world needs and what the rest of the world is doing. And it's my investigation over the next maybe couple years where I'm going to show that, hey, this is actually something big and something really important. And so I'll be chronicling this on my show, including the episodes that I'm doing about creativity and stress. And this actually has a lot to do with creativity and stress. I just interviewed a founder here in Medellin, Colombia, about the particular stresses that are involved in Colombia in building a company and creating a company in Colombia.
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