Rohan Nayak – CEO and Co-Founder of Pocket FM

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Rohan Nayak is the CEO and co-founder of Pocket FM Pvt. Ltd., a vernacular audio streaming startup launched on September 28, 2018. Witnessing a boom in the audio consumption styles such as podcasts, audio series, audio shows, and much more, the company offers 100,000+ hours of long-format audio content. Pocket FM app was launched when audio was almost a “non-existent category”, and has now become of the most popular startups in this sector.

Personal Details

Name	Rohan Nayak
Age	Not mentioned
Date of Birth	Not mentioned
Place of Birth	Not mentioned
Hometown	New Delhi, India
Profession	Entrepreneur
Designation	CEO and co-founder of Pocket FM
Company Headquarters	Bengaluru, Karnataka
LinkedIn Profile	https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-nayak
Twitter Handle	@RohanNayak2
Father’s Name	Not mentioned
Mother’s Name	Not mentioned
Siblings	Not mentioned

Rohan Nayak’s Educational Qualifications

Rohan completed his schooling at Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram in 2010
He pursued BTech, in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Rohan Nayak’s Career

Rohan did an internship as a part of his BTech course as a research analyst in 2011 at IIT, Kharagpur.
In May 2013, he did a summer internship at Barclays bank in Mumbai for 2 months. Rohan was a part of the Corporate and Investment Banking Division.
Rohan later joined Credit Suisse as a delta one analyst in June 2014.
In November 2015, he joined Cube26 (Now acquired by Paytm) as a product manager and was later promoted to product lead in March 2017.
Rohan worked as a product manager in Paytm from April 2018 to September 2018.
He co-founded Pocket FM in September 2018 along with Nishanth Srinivas and Prateek Dixit.

Company’s Vision

Pocket FM Pvt. Ltd. envisions letting audio content become a mainstream format for sharing knowledge and experiences. The company acts as a medium to bridge the “format gap” for content creators to reach out to wider audiences.

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