Sheel Mohnot
27 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2022 by Sheel Mohnot · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Aug 15, 2022
Sheel Mohnot: Better Tomorrow Ventures dictates valuations as a price maker
“The other is there's a difference between a price taker and a price maker. So like, Oftentimes a founder will say like, this is what I want. And we say, okay, like totally understandable. If you want to work with us, the price is X. And here's a bunch of folks…”
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Aug 15, 2022 negative
Aug 15, 2022
Mohnot Faked Having a Fund by Investing Personal Capital for 18 Months
“For the first 18 months, I was basically funding it out of my own pocket, pretending like I had a fund. And it was most of the money I had at the time. Like I was selling stock to invest in startups to pretend like I had a fund.”
Aug 15, 2022 negative
Mohnot and Gibson declined VC offers in 2019 due to bureaucracy
“We ended up getting offers at funds, but decided during this time that he and I got to know each other a lot better, we decided, hey, maybe we should just do our own thing. These funds are maybe not for us. Some of them are too bureaucratic. Some of them have …”
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Aug 15, 2022 bearish
Aug 15, 2022
Mohnot Lived on One Dollar a Day During India Fellowship
“I did this fellowship lived in India on a dollar a day. So very, very low burn lifestyle. I was working in microfinance and decided I would live like my borrowers and my borrowers, you know, lived on a dollar a day. So I decided I would too.”
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Aug 15, 2022 bearish
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Aug 15, 2022 negative
Mohnot: Venture GP fund commitments should cap at 10% of net worth
“So I think it really should be some portion of your net worth, and maybe it should be, like, up to 10% of your net worth should be in a fund. And that's a significant portion, but not like, it's not like you're gonna need an extra, like, you're not gonna wanna…”
Aug 15, 2022 bullish
Aug 15, 2022
Mohnot: Failed investments bias VCs against viable business models
“And I think the biggest miss for me was you look at a model, you've invested in a model that didn't work and you have the idea that it can't work. And actually, no, that's not true. It's just like the founder didn't do the right things to make it work.”
Aug 15, 2022 neutral
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Mohnot: Y Combinator is too scaled to provide specialized fintech support
“YC is a totally different beast. YC is great. Like they've great, great companies, but it's really built for scale. And it, and some of our portfolio companies that went through YC said they didn't really get the support in FinTech that they needed. They have …”
Jul 17, 2023 neutral
Jul 17, 2023 positive
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Mohnot: Data-driven VC invested in Zume Pizza based on Facebook shares
“So, okay, on that company, I met a guy who invested in that company early, or relatively early, and it was a data-driven VC. And I was like, what data do you have for this company? And he was like, we have all this data on, like, number of shares on Facebook o…”
Jul 17, 2023 negative
Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 positive
Mohnot: 500 Fintech cohorts produced five 70x return companies
“We have five companies that are more than 70 X on each, in each of the, so we did five cohorts of six to 10 companies, and out of all those, so say it's like 40 companies in total, we have five companies that are delivering more than 70 X return.”
Jul 17, 2023 positive