Hiten Shah
17 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2016 by Hiten Shah · said 7 times in 7 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture
- 20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Hiten Shah, oldest first
Mar 4, 2016 bullish
Hiten Shah predicts startup creation and competition will keep increasing
“There's going to be more and more companies in the future. There's going to be more and more competition, and the reason is, you know, it's easier than ever to start a company, and on top of that, Because it's easier than ever and it's cheaper than ever.”
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 positive
Shah: AWS and modern tools eliminated the $1M upfront cost to build software
“Founders used to be able to raise money just by having a deck. And the reason is, it was much harder to build stuff. Harder meaning it took more resources, more money. So you needed actual Like a million dollars just to get your servers going, and get the prod…”
Mar 4, 2016 negative
Mar 4, 2016 positive
Hiten Shah: Startups should only raise VC after achieving product-market fit
“Once you're at a point, my ideal scenario is, you get to product market fit, You start experimenting with channels and things like that so that you're basically ready to scale, and then you wanna make a, make an argument, so to speak, that without money, we wo…”
Mar 4, 2016
Shah: Raising VC is like marriage, but immediately becomes just business
“It's almost like you're going into a marriage when you raise money. But then what you don't realize is after that marriage, it's just business. Like, I don't mean to say it's just business, but essentially everyone's focused on the business and how to get grow…”
Mar 4, 2016 bullish
Mar 4, 2016
Hiten Shah: Founders must track competitors as high market density impacts customers
“So number one, there's more companies out there than ever. Number two, competition is heavier than ever. They used to say, don't focus on your competition, focus on your customer. Now what I'm going to say is focus on your customer just like you used to, but d…”
Mar 4, 2016 positive
Hiten Shah on how helping others generates long-term business serendipity
“Within 24 hours, some random thing happens. That wouldn't have happened. That's very good for me, my businesses, my life, whatever. That only happened because I decided to help somebody at some point like three years ago. So this magic just happens if you're j…”
Aug 9, 2019 positive
Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019
Shah: Watching Senior Board Members Is More Useful Than Seeking Advice
“Be on a board and have someone who's more senior than you that's been on boards before as an investor, and you can just absorb by watching them and learning how they do things, but that is actually more impactful than talking to people and getting advice from …”
Aug 9, 2019
Hiten Shah: Venture capital investing beyond seed is a numbers game
“I feel like investing is something that you have to be pretty dedicated to in order to do an amazing job at it beyond like pre-seed or seed rounds. The reason for that is it is a numbers game. You are basically writing enough checks so that some of them work o…”
Aug 9, 2019 negative
Hiten Shah: Expansion strategy matters far more than initial market size
“Markets are all pretty big now, and I don't really care about market size as much as if this business has a natural path or some, not even natural, but the founders and the team are thinking about how it expands over time and where they see it going. I feel li…”
Aug 9, 2019
Hiten Shah: Burnout stems from attempting to control uncontrollable factors
“Depression or burnout or whatever other folks would call it is really a result of stress and unrecognized stress based on me trying to get control of things I cannot control. And that's the fundamental thing that really burns me out is when I'm trying to get c…”