Immad Akhund
37 statements across 2 episodes · 13 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2019 by Immad Akhund · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Sep 20, 2019 positive
Akhund: Angel investing improves fundraising by revealing implicit VC evaluation tactics
“I don't think naturally I'm actually that good at fundraising, but when you can understand how the other person's thinking and what are red flags, what are gray flags, green flags, I think it kind of helps a lot because you just, you know, when someone asks a …”
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Akhund: Founders should reject 'always be raising' because it distracts from building
“I'm like, so out on that statement. I just think it's partly because I don't like fundraising at all. And it's partly because, you know, fundraising is not the objective. It's distracting. There's so much to do at a startup.”
Sep 20, 2019 positive
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Akhund: Investor updates fail if founders hide actual startup problems
“And at the end of the day, how can someone be helpful if they don't know the full picture, right? So I think if you're not starting from the initial view of I'm going to be honest, transparent, say actual problems, then you've like already failed.”
Sep 20, 2019
Akhund: Startup ideas matter significantly, contrary to Silicon Valley belief
“And then the other thing that we're doing right this time is, I was kind of off the mindset that, like, ideas don't matter back then, and yeah, people go through this, like, Silicon Valley goes through this phase. Sometimes they're like, ideas don't matter, ju…”
Sep 20, 2019 negative
Akhund: Taking early VC meetings is a distraction, not proof of progress
“Sometimes it's like investors are literally their job is to meet people. Often I hear from an entrepreneur that like, oh, you know, blah, blah, blah. Investor reached out to me or like this VC wants to meet. And like, I'm on a second meeting with them. And lik…”
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Akhund: At current seed valuations, investors must hunt for decacorns, not unicorns
“What we're really doing as seed investors is unicorn hunting, or I would say even, like, at these current evaluations, like, you're hunting for decacorns, and that doesn't, yeah, even if you're great at picking and you have a great network, et cetera you're no…”
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Akhund: I passed on Scale AI because the founders were too young
“I saw scale AI and I was like, okay, you know, like good idea, but these people are so young. I think they were like 19 and 20 at the time or something. I was like, yeah, this is like, I was like, I think I could run this company better if I was doing it and I…”
May 12, 2025
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Immad Akhund: Thesis-driven funds are inferior to broad investing strategies
“I tend to, for deals I receive, I actually think thesis driven funds are not that great. Like I think it's better to have like a broad, broad investing strategy, but for deals that I receive, I kind of like thesis driven funds because I'm like, okay, they know…”
May 12, 2025
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Akhund launches first $26M institutional fund with partner Yash Doshi
“Yeah, I finally closed on my first institutional fund. We raised twenty six million dollars. I'm partnering with kind of a friend of mine. Actually he invested in Mercury seven years ago. His name's Yash Doshi. He was at EQ two ventures, EQT ventures.”
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Akhund: Rappi hit unicorn status within a year of my seed investment
“Rappi was one of my first investments. Rappi is like a door dash for LADAM. Yeah. I literally invested and they did not talk to me again. Like they were just so busy and they grew that thing like crazy. And it was a unicorn within a year and a half. I invested…”
May 12, 2025 negative
Akhund: Mercury raised too much in its seed round, causing high dilution
“It's like we raised too much money in our seed round. Like we raised six million at like a twenty three million valuation. And like, this was because I was like, okay, fintech is hard. Like I want to have so much money that like I can go on for three years wit…”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Akhund: Airtable can reach a $50 billion valuation within 15 years
“I'm in it for the game as it was, and I do think, you know, these kind of compounders like Airtable you know, like there's companies I'm in where I'm like, okay, I can see this being a fifty billion dollar company, and if I just stick with it for, you know, ma…”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Akhund: If you get a massive valuation, raise big but don't spend
“I think the mistake is to not raise enough money. Like every now and then someone gets like a, you know, like a million dollar valuation, they raised like fifty million. I think that's a mistake. Like you want to raise enough money at that high valuation. And …”
May 12, 2025
Akhund: Angel investors need at least 20 to 30 investments
“Doing like one or two is not going to make a difference. Like I think, so mostly I say to people, hey, if you have enough money, I mean, we're not talking about a ton of money, but if you have enough money to do at least 20 or 30 investments, that's when you s…”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Akhund: Mercury will employ more software engineers in five years despite AI
“I think we'll have more. Like, I think the maybe I'm contrarian about it a little bit, but to me, if my engineers get more productive, I'm gonna come up with more things to do. Like, I'm gonna have, like, so much stuff that I want to do.”