Rahul Vohra
18 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 22, 2019 by Rahul Vohra · said 26 times in 17 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: The Memo: How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund (Part I) | The Core Lessons from Raising $400M Over The Last Four Years| The Biggest Mistakes VCs Make When Fundraising | How To Find and Build Relationships with New LPs
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- 20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- 20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
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2019 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- 20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- 20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- 20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
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Everything said about Rahul Vohra, oldest first
Feb 22, 2019
Modern software product design has essentially become game design
“I think that the bar for product design, whether it's consumer or enterprise, has risen to such a degree that it has essentially become game design. Game design is one of the hardest types of product to create, and I would strongly suggest that any product des…”
Feb 22, 2019 positive
Startups should only scale aggressively after sustaining a 40% product-market fit score
“When you're past the 40% threshold and that number is sustaining, even as you're adding more users, the metric isn't going down. That's when you want to push Pedal to metal. That's when you want to grow as fast as you can.”
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019 positive
Feb 22, 2019 neutral
Feb 22, 2019 negative
Vohra: Investors must stop pushing early-stage startups for premature growth
“My suggestion to the investment community, especially the investment community that advises early stage teams, would be to stop pushing for premature growth, especially premature growth at a product market fit. I think as an industry, we all already know that …”
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Startups should raise capital in Silicon Valley but spend it elsewhere
“The rational thing to do is, is headquarter here, be here, raise money here because capital is relatively abundant and Valuations are high. It's a very founder-friendly place to be, but it isn't rational to spend money here. The rational thing to do is to go a…”
Feb 22, 2019 positive
Accepting preemptive rounds is significantly more efficient than running active fundraising processes
“I have found for superhuman, and we've been executing it this way, that it is actually, if you can pull it off, much, much, much more efficient to not do that and to let the market come to you. So to be always sufficiently well capitalized ahead of your needs …”
Apr 24, 2020 positive
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020 negative
Apr 24, 2020 positive
Apr 24, 2020 positive
Vohra: $100M ARR is the benchmark for $1B valuation and expansion
“One of the simple questions I always ask myself from my perspective as an angel investor is, can this potential company get to a hundred million dollars of annual recurring revenue? And there's a few reasons behind that. I think number one, that's the point at…”
Apr 24, 2020
Jun 8, 2020 bullish
Superhuman's manual onboarding process is a sustainable category-creation mechanism
“One of my favorite sustainable growth mechanisms that a lot of people think is unsustainable, and we mentioned Rahul, is the superhuman for onboarding, which is, in my mind, a total category creation play in how they've kind of mechanized onboarding in that wa…”
Oct 27, 2023 positive
Sim: Superhuman founder locked $10M Series A in separate bank account untouched
“Then he raised pre raised a ten million dollar A round. He put it in a separate bank account and said, I'm not going to touch this thing. I'm literally just going to put it there. I don't want to see it. It's in a separate bank account. I'm only going to opera…”