PK 是一位在内容、社交媒体和直播领域的印度创业者和天使投资人，他的创业公司InstaLively和Pulse曾被腾讯的Hike Messenger收购。之后，他前往中国走出自己的舒适圈，探索新的机会和挑战。目前他为Various Startups担任咨询师，帮助中国和印度企业和风投理解印度和印度尼西亚市场，同时担任中国第一家加速器中国加速的导师。

在本期播客中，PK分享了他将创业公司卖给腾讯的过程，以及其对中国和印度市场的分析和理解，例如中国企业如何在印度市场本土化以及中国的数据驱动模式是否在印度仍然行得通等。

PK is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor in social network, content and live-stream space who built, grew and finally sold his startups InstaLively and Pulse to Tencent-owned company Hike Messenger. After selling them, PK came to China for new opportunities and challenges where he started being a consultant for Various Startups which helps China-India Startups and VCs in building the next billion Internet users in Indonesia and India, as well as mentoring founders for Chinaccelerator.

In this episode, PK shared his journey about selling startups to Tencent and also delivered insights about the China-India startup and investment ecosystem, including the challenges to localize Chinese companies in India and how the Chinese data drive model works in India, etc.

Show Notes: 

1:00 Introducing PK 

1:37 Introducing InstaLively 

2:51 Process of Tencent Buy-Out 

6:57 Experience with Mergers and Acquisition 

9:28 Transition with Hike Messenger 

10:10 Difficulties from culture differences 

11:50 Due Diligence 13:30 Alignment with the new team 

15:02 Moving to Beijing and the experience in China 

17:20 China-India tech ecosystem 

20:45 The Belt and Road Initiative in China 

23:01 Advantages and obstacles of Chinese investment and startups in India 26:05 Challenges for Chinese companies to localize in India 

28:20 What works in China doesn’t necessarily work in India 

30:19 Will Indian companies be able to come to China? 

31:38 PK’s future plans 32:20 Contact PK (Full name: Prakhar Khanduja)

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we'll do our best to realize it!

Many thanks to our host Oscar Ramos and guest PK, producer Eva Shi, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com