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A day after Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra committed an investment of $1 mn in social media start-up Hapramp, its creative social media app GoSocial saw unprecedented traffic due to which the

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T E Narasimhan  |  Chennai 

Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra flanked by Hapramp co-founders Pratyush Singh (extreme left) and Shubhendra Vikram
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra flanked by Hapramp co-founders Pratyush Singh (extreme left) and Shubhendra Vikram

On June 11, a day after well-known industrialist and chairman of Mahindra Group Anand Mahindra committed an investment of $1 million in social media start-up Hapramp, its creative social media app GoSocial saw unprecedented traffic due to which the app's server crashed for some time.

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First Published: Tue, June 23 2020. 15:28 IST

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