Rahul Mehta

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2017 by Rahul Mehta · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jul 24, 2017 neutral
Insight
Growth-stage investments always look expensive initially because valuations price in projected growth
“Yeah, I think most investments that you make in the space, they look expensive on the day you're investing, because you're investing so much for the projected growth.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 19:32 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017
Insight
Poor deal selection damages a venture firm's future access to elite founders
“You would not be able to pick the best company unless you have access to it, so you need to have access first, and if you've made a lot of type one, type two errors in picking, then you wouldn't have The same access to high quality founders in the future eithe…”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 16:05 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017 positive
Disclosure
DST aims to build founder relationships 12 to 18 months before investing
“But ideally, you know, call it 12 to 18 months before, and then you've had, like, a few interactions with them.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 9:32 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017
Insight
Local footprints suit early-stage VC, while global scale suits late-stage VC
“For early stage, being local is a competitive advantage, as you're, you know, actually involved in building the product, hiring the engineers, etc. The later stage, global becomes, becomes a competitive advantage as well.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 17:49 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017
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Only 10 internet companies globally had achieved $10B GMV by 2017
“There are only 10 internet companies globally, public or private, which have ten billion GMB, and there are less than 15 companies It's globally with a million orders a day.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 15:20 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017 neutral
Insight
Scaling founders cannot delegate building relationships with regulators and ecosystem partners
“As a large company, you cannot have blind spots, and corrective course of action becomes tougher as you become bigger, so you're better off basically investing in the team ahead of time, and second, I would say investing time in building a relationship with th…”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 18:41 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Referrals from existing portfolio founders drive most of DST's deal sourcing
“A lot of the credit for our sourcing like would go to the existing founders in the network and like what they have managed to build.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 16:29 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Jul 24, 2017 positive
Insight
Startups with capital and product-market fit should aggressively pursue market share
“If you have access to capital and the product idea fundamentally makes sense, then I would say it overall is the right thing to do to be pretty aggressive early on and try and take as much market share as possible.”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 12:15 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
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