EP 203 : Building India's largest E-sports platform - Soham Thacker (Founder, Gamerji)
The Startup OperatorFebruary 15, 2023x
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EP 203 : Building India's largest E-sports platform - Soham Thacker (Founder, Gamerji)

Soham is a serial entrepreneur and has started up in different sectors over the years. He is currently building India's largest gaming platform, Gamerji, a platform for gamers to participate in tournaments for various games. In this episode he spoke about his journey, what goes into building a gaming platform and more!

Topics:
00:00 Sneak peak
00:42 Introduction
02:04 Soham's learning from his journey as a founder
04:42 Hardest lessons Soham learnt
06:14 Why Soham picked the gaming sector
08:17 Challenges of running a gaming platform
10:00 Gamerji's growth story
11:54 What goes into hosting tournaments
14:05 Economics of Gamerji
15:17 What changes from 100k to a million users scale
16:28 Customer acquisition channels
17:17 Building a moat
18:34 Tools and technologies built by gamerji
20:03 Working with Game publishers
21:24 Operating in different markets
22:28 Staying close to users
23:50 Soham's take on draft gaming regulations
26:09 Nuances of executing in the gaming space
28:25 Executing during a downturn
29:32 Books and podcast recommendations

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