Koo to raise headcount to 500 in one year, says co-founder

Homegrown microblogging platform Koo expects to raise its headcount to over 500 people in the next one year, as it looks to hire across engineering, product and community management teams. Twitter rival Koo, which has scripted phenomenal growth with a user base touching the 1 crore-mark recently, has 200 employees on its rolls, at present. "We are now 200 people, and we will reach at least 500 people in the next one year as we hire primarily in areas such as engineering, product and community management," Koo co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna told PTI. Other areas of hiring include government relations, and marketing, brand marketing among others, but these will comprise smaller teams. "We would like to attract the best talent that can work for us, and take Indian technology to the globe," Radhakrishna said.