Anand Sanwal

9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 26, 2015 by Anand Sanwal · said 10 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 26, 2015 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
CB Insights will replace traditional research reports as the market standard
“Yeah, I mean, I think we are going, I think we're going to be the industry standard when it comes to data on what's happening, what's next, right? So when people want to know what the next big industry is going to be, they're not going to read research reports…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 26, 2015 ▶ 22:44 Founder's Friday 001: How to Create Great Company Culture with Anand Sanwal, Founder @ CB Insights
Jun 26, 2015
Assertion Supported
Anand Sanwal ran a $50M innovation fund at American Express
“I worked prior to CB Insights at American Express, so I ran, I was in their corporate venture group, their corporate M&A group, and then ultimately ran a fifty million dollar innovation fund that the company was, that the company had.”
Anand Sanwal Jun 26, 2015 ▶ 1:57 Founder's Friday 001: How to Create Great Company Culture with Anand Sanwal, Founder @ CB Insights
Jun 26, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CB Insights took two years longer than expected to reach its scale
“I think I expected for us to be where we are today, maybe two years ago”
Anand Sanwal Jun 26, 2015 ▶ 21:10 Founder's Friday 001: How to Create Great Company Culture with Anand Sanwal, Founder @ CB Insights
Dec 7, 2018 positive
Insight
Sanwal: Asking candidates how they prepared reveals work ethic and analytical ability
“Yeah, so the question I like to open with is just tell me how you prepared for this conversation. A lot of doing well, you know, and again, at CV Insights is about being prepared, doing the work, glamorous or not glamorous, to make sure that you put yourself i…”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 26:30 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
Dec 7, 2018
Disclosure
Sanwal: Was a paper millionaire at Kozmo.com before IPO failed
“So I was a millionaire on paper. Cosmo was expected to go public. We'd filed for our S-One.”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 4:37 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
Dec 7, 2018
Insight
Sanwal: Real businesses are fundamentally valuable, not exit-dependent
“A real business to us is one that's not reliant on a flip, is not reliant on selling out to Somebody who values it in some esoteric way, it's a business that's fundamentally valuable.”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 10:13 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
Dec 7, 2018 positive
Insight
Sanwal: Candidates who add value during interviews show an exceptionally strong signal
“Like that's a really helpful conversation because somebody's, they're adding value and that's an incredibly good sign at the interview stage if somebody's adding value that early.”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 28:10 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
Dec 7, 2018
Insight
Sanwal: Startups can only balance two of three key stakeholders
“You can have three masters, right? You can have your clients, you can have your team, and you can have investors. And in our view, you can balance two of them.”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 8:57 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
Dec 7, 2018 negative
Insight
Sanwal: Elite pedigree in hiring is overrated for challenger startups
“For us, right? But I think for us, like, pedigree has sometimes led us astray. We are, because of how we've grown and how we've sort of been brought up, we like people who are hungry and ambitious and, you know, who have a bit of the chip on their shoulder. An…”
Anand Sanwal Dec 7, 2018 ▶ 22:52 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
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