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Somani: Mid-career professionals in their forties are increasingly launching startups in India
“A lot more people are even at mid-career wanting to start up now because we have so many successful role models. So many, you know, folks even in their forties are beginning to start up, which was very rare, ah, earlier, right.”
Somani: India Will Become the World's Third-Largest Economy in 10 Years
“We'll be the third largest in the next 10 years, right? That's another seven trillion dollars of GDP, let alone market cap, right?”
Somani: Prime saw only one failure across its first 23 investments
“Invested in 23 companies one didn't work out, and that was in the early days of twenty-twelve, twenty-thirteen. By and large, all the other companies have done well.”
Somani: 17 of Prime's first 20 portfolio companies raised Series A
“If I had to take the remaining 20, I would say 17 would have raised series A, B or more.
I don't have the exact breakdown between AB or more.
Of the remaining three two are breakeven.
One is handsomely profitable like in the millions of dollars kind of pro…”
Somani: Demonetization drove massive adoption for digital bank NiYO
“So they started actually before the demonetization, but demonetization really took them through the roof because Basically everything went to digital for that time, and then these workers started receiving their salaries digitally into their bank accounts and …”
Somani: India Added Its Third Trillion in GDP in Five Years
“The first trillion dollars of India is GDP. Happened in about you know, 50, 55 years, right? Maybe 60. The next trillion dollars of increase in GDP happened in about 15 years. The last trillion dollars happened in five years, right?”
Somani: MakeMyTrip Listed on NASDAQ With $60M Revenue and $8M EBITDA
“It was about sixty million in revenue, real revenue. At that time there was no ARR, there was no GMB. We wish we knew GMB. Maybe the company would have been listed at a higher valuation. And about eight million dollars in actual EBITDA, right?”
Somani: SaaS Company Tracxn Generates 70% to 80% of Revenue Abroad
“Even we as Prime had a modest IPO, but of a very successful company called Traction. And that's a completely tech global company, SaaS company. I would suspect 70, 80% of the revenue is abroad and they're still very successfully in India.”
Somani: Kunal Shah and Sanjeev Bhikchandani prefer unprepared, high-intensity interviews
“Many guests like Mr. Bhikchandani or like Kunal Shah, you know, they want to kind of play the first ball as a Yorker incoming at a 145 kilometers an hour, right? They don't want to prepare for it and want to be on that edge.”