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Truecaller – Sweden’s global telephone directory

Friday, September 12, 2014 - 02:52

Sept. 12 - Swedish tech firm Truecaller addresses a key pain point for many people – knowing who is calling you or how to call someone whose number you don’t know, explains Co-Founder Nami Zarringhalam.

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Many people according stuck on the world's next -- -- takes CT to find out more ahead of the Stockholm picks fest. I'm joined by -- he's siding on on co-founder and strategy officer act to collect. Tell us about your company. Sure so. True -- of the company founded in 2000 on. And it's a mobile location that's also prince point four millions of people. And the pain point we solve is that people don't know who is calling them or how they can get in touch with that other people so using true colors you can reach millions of people in wanna. Why is Sweden a good place to be an entrepreneur. Well. First analysts agree that atmosphere bettors. A lot of entrepreneurs here as long as. I can recall there's been a good good entrepreneurial spirit and tightens up on. And you know you have great support by trade body. Government through. University in net and so on so. It's it's a great place. What advice would you give to those getting -- it. Well my first advisors to always ask for help. We we did that done and that worked out for us you know you have you -- have a lot of Smart people around you. Make sure that you call all of the mountain and asked them to open. Even though you've faced since dot com your main user base is in India. DC moving closer to where you're most popular. So today we actually have an office over it in India it's primarily for business development purposes and but yeah of course we're -- we're gonna increase the team. And expand into both India Middle East and Africa the coming months. And the what is your biggest challenge. So our biggest challenges always. Two -- Could culture within the company. So it's more of internal challenge Robinson external. Think he tell you more about that sort of technical the community. Ninety behind him the concept record -- Sure so. True color works on all Smartphones. And what it does that is that is chicks. Against our database of over one. Point two billion people. And you can search for these people by name or phone number. And two days. We have over some five million users of -- caller and they collectively do over 150 million. Sorry at one point five billion searches per month in true well.