Sanjay Swamy
Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners. On 1 show, 6 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Sanjay Swamy is an Indian venture capitalist who co-founded Prime Venture Partners and co-founded startups including ZipDial and Ezetap. He previously served as CEO of mobile payments company mChek and was a core member of the UIDAI Aadhaar authentication team.
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35statements
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143said about them ↓ Everything Sanjay Swamy said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Swami: US returnees to India face disadvantages due to local leapfrogging
“Today, I think what people are realizing is they're actually out of touch with India and India is growing in a very, what worked in the US is not necessarily experience that will translate to India. Right? So they're coming to India now and they're actually, w…”
Limiting early fundraising ensures even small startup exits remain meaningful
“If you don't raise too much money, even a mid-sized or a relatively small exit can be very meaningful to everyone.”
Prime Venture Partners is very unlikely to raise a $300M fund
“Well, you know we have a philosophy that says in early stage and with the approach we have, right, there's only, we're limited by our bandwidth, right, so as it is, as you said, you know, 25 companies, and you said only, I was saying, wow, we're 25 companies t…”
Swami: Standard 10-Plus-Two Fund Lifecycle Fits the Indian Venture Ecosystem
“I think the standard US model of 10 plus two is probably the right thing for India. You know, perhaps seed will, you know, seed only funds might take an extra year, but broadly speaking, 10 plus two is the right thing.”
Swami: Kunal Shah's Second Venture Will Be An Order Of Magnitude Bigger
“Yes, there is someone like Konal Shah who had an amazing outcome the first time and is going to have, you know, a couple of orders bigger outcome, you know, perhaps the second time around, right, certainly one order more.”
Swami: VCs make money on winners but build reputations on failed startups
“So, there's a famous quote, I think you used to tell me, I don't know who you are spending it to, but you make your money on the winners, But you make your reputation on the ones that don't pan out, right? And so we end up, you know, it seemed like an expressi…”
Swami: Prime's dollar loss ratio is quarter to half its failure rate
“Our dollar loss ratio is actually .5 X or .25 X, right? Because we have not Poured in a lot of fall on capital, just blindly because we own so much, the next round is happening.”
Swami: VCs do founders a disservice by funding dead-end follow-ons
“Sometimes you're doing the founder a disservice by backing them in the next round when the business isn't going anywhere, right?”
Western and Chinese models cannot solve India's problems
“The Western models, the Chinese models, the Israeli models are not what's going to solve India's problems. And the entrepreneurs in India have a unique opportunity To get down here, you know, and just focus on solving India's problems first, which may very wel…”
Swamy: Western, Chinese, and Israeli business models cannot solve India's problems
“Western models, the Chinese models, the Israeli models are not what's going to solve India's problems.”
Swamy: Western, Chinese, and Israeli models will not solve India's problems
“The Western models, the Chinese models, the Israeli models are not what's going to solve India's problems.”
Successful fintech startups avoid building end-to-end ecosystem plays alone
“The startups that have succeeded in the space worldwide, haven't been the ones that have tried to do it all in an ecosystem play, right? Either they've taken control of their destiny, like in the case of APTM, or, you know, the ecosystem play was done by NPCI,…”
SIM-embedded SMS remains the world's most secure mobile banking method
“Banking on a secure SMS. To this day, I maintain, is the most secure form of mobile banking that's been implemented in the world, because it was on the SIM card. The SIM card is a smart card. It's like a hardware security module in your pocket that has never b…”
Scaling is domain-independent, but achieving product-market fit is deeply domain-dependent
“Scaling actually is in some ways independent of the business, right? The product market fit is very dependent on the domain, so that is a more challenging and exciting part”
Founders in their 40s must prove domain edge, unlike 20-somethings
“So, when you're looking at entrepreneurs in their twenties, it's about, you don't ask the question, why will you succeed, and others won't, because it doesn't make any sense, and it's this, I have the raw energy and the power, right? And the desire. In your fo…”
Swami: India Will Produce Several Mid-Scale IPOs Within Three Years
“I think the middle, mid-scale IPOs is still sort of early days that I think we'll see over the next three years, you know, several of those.”
Swami: It takes 10 to 12 years to evaluate a VC's skill
“In three years you can find out if you are a bad VC, but it takes 10 to 12 years to know if you are any good at it, and it takes 20 years to prove that you are consistently good at it”
Indian startups now hit $5M-$10M revenue in 12-18 months
“This is something that was not there 10 years ago, you know, getting to five, ten million dollars of revenue was itself a big achievement, but now we're seeing that happening, you know, in 12 to 18 months in some cases.”
Swamy: Indian startups now reach $5M-$10M revenue in 12-18 months
“This is something that was not there 10 years ago, you know, getting to five, ten million dollars of revenue was itself a big achievement, but now we're seeing that happening, you know, in 12 to 18 months in some cases.”
Swamy: Radical acceptance of a crisis liberates leaders to move forward
“The first thing that you have to realize is the world has changed, and it's changed permanently, right? And you go through these crises, the worst thing you can do is not accept that the crisis has happened, right? And the moment you've accepted it, actually, …”
Sanjay Swamy: Founders hurt startups by staying after losing their belief
“And that's something for an entrepreneur, right? If your heart is no longer in it, if you no longer think you can build the biggest company on the planet. Probably the best thing I did was leave then and there, right? And because I would have done the company …”
Swamy: Having an exit option immediately tempts people to abandon commitments
“At the moment you give yourself an escape you know, door that you'll immediately want to use it.”
Swamy: Aside from medical matters, almost no life decisions are irreversible
“We often think we're making very large decisions in life, right? But none of these, except if it's a medical situation you know, are really irreversible, right? So we're making us a large number of small decisions, and we should really think of it that way”
Bangalore not requiring Kannada is both a strength and a weakness
“Many people come to Bangalore and they don't bother to learn Kannada because they don't need to. Ah, that's both the strength and the weakness of the city in some ways because, you know, it's, it is, you know, everybody feels at home as soon as they walk in. B…”
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Who brings them up most Siddhartha Ahluwalia 96Amit Somani 7Shripati Acharya 5Vijay Arisetty 1Tushar Vashisht 1Kirthiga Reddy 1
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 23 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
- Joining Deepika to Manage her Investments to Building 82°East with her ft. Jigar K Shah
- The Journey of MBA Chaiwala - Prafull Billore! How Bigger Struggles to Lead to Bigger Successes
- How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
- From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 30 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
- Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate
- The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 37 mentions in 33 episodes 1 per episode
- Mfine founder on Healthcare Technology and Tele-medicine in India ft. Prasad Kompalli @mfinecare
- @HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht
- @vedantubrand founder on funding, building a unicorn and ed-tech ft. Vamsi Krishna
- @rajshamani on Making Money, Organic Growth and Content Creation on Social Media
- Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
- Marico Limited founder on Sustainability, Growth and Hiring ft. Harsh Mariwala
- Nazara Technologies founder on IPO and future of the Company @NazaraGames
- How @JoshTalksLive went viral in India? ft. Co-founder, Supriya Paul
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 47 mentions in 47 episodes 1 per episode
- Shailesh Ghorpade on Exfinity's journey to partner with the best SaaS startups of India
- Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
- Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- 39 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 6 +3 | 35 | 25% 1/4 | full record on the Neon Show → |