Not many places have the kind of population as India.
You can go to any subscriber and they will have more than 100 million subscribers. That’s what makes the Indian market so exciting. Today we block more than 2 million spam calls a day in India only. We see India as a very important market in terms of product development. India is our biggest market with 29 million users. How big is the Indian market for you? How does it compare with the others? There are some great companies in India which we’re looking into and see how it works. Who are your directory partners in India? You have “directory partners” in certain countries. There are only a few people at Truecaller office who can access those machines. We have a big server hall that is locked down. We host our servers ourselves in Sweden, it’s not in some cloud-based service where you don’t know where your data is. It is important to understand that it’s a public website but the data is completely isolated. We were using Wordpress as our website architecture, and unfortunately it wasn’t good enough. The Syrian Electronic Army attacked your website last year. If you set up your profile, you can decide how your name should appear. For users whose information might be displayed as nicknames, I urge them to unlist their numbers. Any user can disable it and take all the information out. You have to set it to “enhanced” for the app to access your phonebook. But, the sourcing is always disabled by default. However any user can tag information.Ĭrowdsourcing happens on other platforms like Windows phone or Blackberry. To add, if you download Truecaller from Google Play or iPhone app store, we do not crowdsource phone numbers. On the other hand, you can just call me because you have my number. But, if you enter my number, you will get the information that we have. Also.for example if you search for Alan by entering my name, you won’t get my number. We always say that as default, everything is disabled or we put the permission levels at the highest. There have been several privacy concerns with Truecaller harvesting users’ phonebooks to build its directory…
We actually built the app ourselves, the coding and everything. Let’s build the world’s largest phone directory. If I’m in a meeting, how do I know this call is important? We thought, let’s do something crazy. For us the big challenge was to know who is calling. How did the idea for Truecaller come about?īack in 2009, my co-founder Nami and I used to receive a lot of phone calls, from friends and for work. Truecaller received its second round of funding for $18.8 million, led by Sequoia Capital’s Indian arm. They have over 45 million users worldwide. The app, which has its biggest base in India with 29 million users, identifies phone numbers that aren’t saved in users’ phonebooks.
NEW DELHI: Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller with Nami Zarringhalam in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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