Sanjeev Aggarwal
Founder, The Fundamentum Partnership. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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9said about them ↓ Everything Sanjeev Aggarwal said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Aggarwal: High CAC forces single-product D2C brands to become distributors
“Brand will give you stronger unit economics, but brands will have very high, ah, cost of customer acquisition and repeat rates. So very quickly you will find that if you have very high cost of customer acquisitions, Then you can't be a single product company. …”
Aggarwal: Indian digitization is at ground zero outside retail and transport
“But in India, everything is ground zero, other than probably retail and transportation, where there is some degree of maturity.”
Aggarwal: The Biggest Ecosystem Gap Is Scaling Up, Not Starting Up
“And then we found that as the world of tech investing and entrepreneurship had evolved, the big void was not in starting up. Ah, but in, ah, scaling up.”
Aggarwal: Early-Stage and Growth-Stage VC Require Distinct Fund Vehicles
“Yes, because I think the DNA of an early stage firm is very different from a DNA of a growth stage firm. One is about making lots of bets, other is about doing concentrated bets. So I think, to me, they look like two very different businesses, and it's best to…”
Aggarwal: RERA Implementation Will Improve the Quality of Indian Builders
“I think with RERA Act being implemented, the quality of builders who will sustain themselves will improve.”
Aggarwal: India's GDP is likely to reach $5 trillion
“Given that we have two, three trillion dollars of GDP likely to get to five trillion. The size of our digital GDP still is very, ah, miniscule. So we feel that we are not going to be opportunity, ah, constrained.”
Aggarwal: BigBasket holds half of India's grocery market
“Big basket has half of the grocery market in the country, in spite of many other people being in the same business.”
Aggarwal: Top scale-ups require a visionary and execution founder pair
“I like to equate this with Brahma and Vishnu, which is, one is the visionary and the thinker, and other is the person who makes it, converts vision into execution. When this fusion happens in founders, then you tend to see very good outcomes, because no one pe…”
Aggarwal: Fundamentum intentionally limits investments to one or two per year
“Our model is to take concentrated bets, and we really want to do one or two investments in a year, but we want to expose large part of our capital. Because our business model is not only about providing money, but also about investing time. And if we were to d…”
Aggarwal: Founder Communication Skill Is an Outcome of Thinking Skills
“There is value to how you communicate, but to me communication skill is an outcome of your thinking skills.”
Aggarwal: Centralized businesses scale far better than distributed multi-location chains
“Businesses which are built centrally, like e-commerce businesses, which are not hyperlocal, tend to be lot more scalable than businesses, let's say an eye chain, which has to go clinic by clinic across the country. Then the friction there tends to be lot more.…”
Aggarwal: Digital penetration in Indian B2B commerce and edtech is 1-2%
“These seem to be the broad areas where there is a lot of headroom and digital penetration is only one, two percent in almost all of these areas.”
Aggarwal: Venture capital feedback loops take 10 years to evaluate skill versus luck
“Unlike a company where you get quarterly feedback on how you are doing in venture investing, especially early stage or scale up investing, the feedback loop is very long. You only get to know after 10 years. Whether you did right or wrong, and sometimes it cou…”
Aggarwal: Operators transitioning to VC struggle with delayed gratification
“Because a lot of folks who come from operating background are very relevant in that they are able to help the company post investment. But they may also have a shorter time horizon in which they want to see the impact. So to be able to do something without any…”
Aggarwal: Retail is a $600B market within India's $2T+ economy
“Retail, as you know, is, ah, six hundred billion dollar industry out of two, two trillion plus GDP.”
Aggarwal: Helion Struggled to Profit in Real Estate Due to Cyclicity
“We actually haven't had very good experience with real estate. We've had two, three bets in that area. And that industry, I guess, because of lack of transparency very high degree of cyclicity has been a hard one for us to make money off.”
Aggarwal: PharmEasy has grown 3x since Fundamentum's entry
“So I think ever since we entered, company has grown three X.”
Aggarwal: Helion Ventures has stopped making fresh startup investments
“In Helion, we have not done fresh investing because we have a very large portfolio.”
Aggarwal: BigBasket serves kiranas and restaurants using the same supply chain
“For example, Big Basket, ah, works a lot in serving Kiranas, ah, and restaurants, and it gives them economies of, ah, scale. So same supply chain, but delivering to multiple customer segments.”
Aggarwal: Helion succeeded in MakeMyTrip and BigBasket, struggled in high-friction physical businesses
“I think we've had a share of good investments like Make My Trip, Red Bus, Big Basket, Topper. We've had very good investments in outsourcing. We haven't done as well in some physical businesses where there's lot more friction.”
Aggarwal: Fundamentum has focused investments on distribution over D2C brands
“Direct to consumer brands we haven't yet made too many investments because the question is that is it better to invest in distribution or is it better to invest in brand? So far we have invested more in distribution.”
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