Category My Work
Sometimes, investors are sensitive to investing at high valuations, but at other times, the same VC invests at absurd valuations. Why is this? Today, I discuss reasons for investors to stick with a valuation hard-cap and reasons for them to… Continue Reading →
Startups flaunt fundraising, but why the hush on revenue? It’s strategy, not secrecy. I uncover the game behind the numbers.
Do traditional fundraising stages, such as “Seed” and “Pre-A”, truly encapsulate the essence of a startup’s journey? Or do we use them only as labels for fundraising amount? My video explains this
There are 2 tracks into Venture Capital. The Early Track, for 20-year olds, and the Senior Track for people in their 30s and 40s. I discuss how to get in via the Senior Track
Looking at Twitter over the last year, I’m realising it had great Product-Market-Fit (PMF) but never great Business-Model-Fit (BMF) Millions use Twitter for consumption, and creators use it to increase distribution and followers. But Twitter itself has been unable to… Continue Reading →
Venture capital funds are currently in a robust position, with significant “dry powder” ready for deployment, a trend that has been substantiated by data from the past three years. This availability of capital is a testament to the continued investor… Continue Reading →
Looking back to the mid-90s, knowing Visual Basic and building GUI apps was suddenly insufficient. Developers like me had to quickly learn HTML, CSS, and other technologies. Soon, the proliferation of PHP and JavaScript (Ajax!) necessitated yet another round of… Continue Reading →
In an avg YCombinator cohort FinTech went from 7% to 24% in 11 yrs. I’m intrigued that this growth is exclusive of Blockchain, cleanly sidestepping irrational exuberance My take: While Regulators in India & US are both catching up with… Continue Reading →
I used ChatGPT to explain the impact of AI to 1st year students.
Here’s an excerpt of a talk I gave at CMR Institute Of Technology last month
Google’s 140,000 employees use OKRs.
As do Amazon. Linkedin. Spotify. Slack. Baidu. GoPro. DropBox. Asana.
The list of startups that have implemented OKRs reads like a list of the world’s highest-performance teams.