Pocket FM Founders: Building a Billion-Dollar Content Platform, Gen AI & Scaling | Karishma Mehta

Every great company starts with a simple insight. For Pocket FM, it began with a three-hour metro commute and a question: what if audio could become the next big entertainment platform? From that first idea to building a global audio storytelling business, this is a story of scale, experimentation, creators, and betting big on AI. In this episode of AWS Presents Beyond The Boardroom, Karishma Mehta sits down with Rohan Nayak, Co-Founder & CEO of Pocket FM, and Prateek Dixit, Co-Founder of Pocket FM, at their office in Bengaluru to talk about building the company from scratch, democratizing storytelling, discovering breakout IPs, scaling globally, making the business AI-native, and how AWS has powered its infrastructure and AI journey. In this episode, they talk about: How a 3-hour metro commute sparked the idea Why audio became the big entertainment bet Scaling from $200M to $450M ARR in 12 months How anyone can become a storyteller How a delivery partner became a top writer Why fant