Slingshot interview #7 | Building category defining media companies with Deepit, Co-founder, Inshorts

Deepit Purkayastha is the co-founder of Inshorts, India’s leading news summarisation app. A student entrepreneur from India's Internet 1.0 wave, Deepit started Inshorts back at IIT Kharagpur as a facebook page offering crisp news stories. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on the media industry, nuances of Inshorts summarisation product and learnings from their recent foray into “Bharat” with their hyperlocal social network Public.