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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
We look at Hike’s failed super app bet, its messaging flop show and where the company stands today.
This is the final of a three-part series that documents the rise and fall of Hike—India’s original, homegrown social media company. If you haven’t read Part I and Part II, you should get to those first.
Before there was ShareChat, there was Hike. A much-celebrated messaging platform that had emerged in the early 2010s, and quickly turned into a promising super app as well as a unicorn. For a while, Hike was the largest and the most popular. It was India’s answer to WhatsApp.
And then one day, Hike was none of those things.
In the company’s 12-year trajectory, …
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