Samidha Sharma

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India20 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in technology journalism
Expert in covering India's startup ecosystem
Interviews with global tech leaders

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media Professional specializing in Technology Journalism and Startup Ecosystem.

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Skills

Core Skills

JournalismContent StrategyBusiness JournalismEditorial

Other Skills

StorytellingFeature ArticlesContent DevelopmentNew MediaContent ManagementWeb ContentWritingEntrepreneurshipVenture CapitalContent WritingReporting & AnalysisInterviewsBreaking NewsNewspapersOnline Journalism

About

Integrating our print and digital capabilities to make ET’s coverage the most definitive and cross-media in the technology and startup space via ETtech.com. In my earlier role, I was heading the coverage of India's burgeoning entrepreneurship ecosystem and new economy for The Times of India. Have written extensively on consumer technology while tracking companies like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, Ola, Uber among others. Broken the biggest and most impactful news around tech deals, M&A and funding. Written In-depth, deep dive features on techology and investing from India and Silicon Valley, having spent time there. Tracked the Indian e-commerce space since its infancy. Have been able to capture early trends in the venture capital startup ecosystem through my pieces. Been at the forefront of breaking news and forming opinions during various cycles for 15 years. Have profiled/ interviewed the most prominent names from the global tech world like Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, CEO, Open AI, Travis Kalanick, founder of Uber, DST Global's founder Yuri Milner, SoftBank Corp's Masayoshi Son, Stewart Butterfield, founder of Slack, Apoorva Mehta, founder, Instacart, Naval Ravikant of AngelList among a multitude of other founders and investors. Conceptualised a weekly page for The Times of India around startups in 2015 and launched a microsite TOIStartups in 2016.

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

16 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Ettech

Editor

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

http://ettech.com

StorytellingFeature ArticlesJournalismContent DevelopmentContent Strategy

Bennett coleman and co. ltd. (times group)

National Editor- Startups & Emerging Business, The Economic Times

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Head Startups & Emerging Biz coverage at The Economic Times, converging print & digital into a single platform @ETtech

Business JournalismNew MediaEditorialContent Management

Times of india

Editor (Emerging Business)

Apr 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Bennett coleman and co. ltd. (times group)

3 roles

Senior Assistant Editor

Apr 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Wrote for the business section of The Times of India with a focus on start-ups, entrepreneurship, ecommerce and venture/PE deals.

WritingEntrepreneurshipVenture CapitalBusiness Journalism

Assistant Editor- Business

Apr 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs

Wrote for the business section of The Times of India with a focus on start-ups, entrepreneurship and venture deals. Additionally, covered sectors like e-commerce, retail, telecoms and media.

Content WritingReporting & AnalysisBusiness Journalism

Special Correspondent

Nov 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsibilities:- Wrote for the business section of The Times of India covering sectors like telecoms, retail, media, sports marketing, advertising and HR. Besides news stories also wrote news features covering varied areas and subjects across the corporate sector. Also, regularly contributed with interviews and one-on-ones with corporate heads.

Reporting & AnalysisInterviewsJournalism

Street style india

Founder & Blogger

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai

http://streetstyleindia.blogspot.in/
http://www.facebook.com/streetstyleindia

Et now mumbai

Principal Correspondent- On Air

Sep 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · mumbai area, india

Responsibilities: Part of the Mumbai Corporate Bureau team. Extensively covered corporate news stories in consumer goods, retail and media for daily news. Conducted interviews, covered events like the India RetailSummit, coordinated guests for various shows. Also, filed trend stories across sectors.Along with the TV reportage also wrote print stories for the Economic Times.

Cnbc-tv18

Senior Correspondent- On Air

Oct 2007 – Sep 2008 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Responsibilities: Part of the Features team.
Reported for CNBC Storyboard- The flagship advertising & marketing magazine show.
Contributed to daily news bulletins on sectors such as media, advertising and sports
marketing. Reported extensively & produced the annual show on Cannes Lions Advertising Festival 2008 for CNBC Storyboard.
Covered the Goafest 2008- the annual Indian Advertising Festival.
Covered the global launch of the Benetton ad campaign- Africa Works from Dakar,
Senegal in Feb 2008.

The economic times

Business Correspondent

Dec 2005 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Responsibilities: Part of the Corporate Features team.
Conceptualize and write detailed features and news stories on advertising, media & marketing, business of sports, retail, HR, FMCG.
Interviewed heads of businesses & CEOs across sectors for the Economic Times. Covered the International Telecom Union 2006 from Hong Kong.