Shyam Rajamani

Well, I play squash and I also do a lot of running.

So those are my two main go-to sports, but I've started playing a little bit of tennis and basketball here and there just to keep some interest going and learn some new sports as well.

Well, not really.

Well, kind of.

About three years ago, before we started this, me and my co-founder used to play soccer, football down in the neighborhood playgrounds, but then it was always full.

So we thought about spaces to come up with where anyone could pretty much go in and play.

So the primary motive of SharePlay was to get people to come out of their neighborhoods, to come out of their houses and find places to play.

And we couldn't, so we thought up of a lot of places where we could go and sign up and maybe build some infrastructure and all of that.

And then we looked at the number of schools that are there in India.

So we primarily work with schools and universities and colleges that have a lot of sporting infrastructure because India has got about 100,000 private schools and maybe five to 10 times that in terms of public schools.

And a lot of these schools have some kind of sports infrastructure that

whether it's a standard mud ground or a basketball court or a volleyball court or something better for some of the schools.

But they're in every neighborhood, and they're all closed after 4 p.m.

and 5 p.m.

because schools are the three.

So we saw an opportunity, therefore, to create neighborhood sporting centers so anybody could just come in from a two-kilometer radius and get a game of their favorite sport.

So, our share bid lists all of our facilities, all the schools and all the sports facilities that are there, and we sell them by the hour.

So, a large part of our population is the school students themselves who come back, maybe senior school students.

60% of our customers are between the age of about 16 to 21, where they come in and they book out the sports facilities with their friends.

with their neighbors and they come in and use it uh later on through the day some facilities are open till midnight and we have a lot of older people coming in and using it to finish work and they come in right uh so most of our customers live in that neighborhood in a two three kilometer radius so we're kind of creating uh play centers for people who wouldn't normally go to a private space or pay a club membership to get a membership so if i open the application today how many different venues will i see available for me to book time