Chetan Puttagunta
5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 5, 2019 by Chetan Puttagunta · said 31 times in 14 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
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2025 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- 20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Chetan Puttagunta, oldest first
Aug 5, 2019 negative
Puttagunta: Historical TAM analysis is a trap; market spend can expand 100x
“And so I think TAM analysis is the first step to that mental trap where you can look at historical or legacy markets and say, well, the last 10 years or the last 20 years, this market has been this small. And the important question to ask then is, well, is tha…”
Aug 5, 2019 negative
Aug 5, 2019
Puttagunta: Software end-users must become product champions to avoid buyer friction
“Oftentimes if you don't understand that relationship and the user has not become a champion of the product, the buyer then has an enormous decision-making power, whether it's like a procurement process in large enterprises or whether it's a decision-making pro…”
Aug 5, 2019
Puttagunta: Assume competitors are smart and have uncovered unique market insights
“And I think the optimal strategy is to assume that everybody that is competing with you has actually had or has found some unique insight as to why the market is addressable in their unique approach. And so to assume that your competitors are all really smart,…”
Aug 5, 2019 positive
Puttagunta: Going public drives operational rigor in software companies
“Having that light and that spotlight on your company just makes the execution orientation of everybody go to another level, and I think it's just a really, really positive force in In the growth of a company, especially in software, and so I think it's just an…”