Sundararajan: Strategic pauses allow founders to listen and respond instead of react
Sriram Sundararajan · Navigating Startup Success: Insights on Venture Capital, Market Disruption, and Mentorship · Jul 21, 2025 · at 24:39
Sriram Sundararajan, Managing Partner at Hypergrowth Labs Capital, discusses pitching techniques for startup founders, highlighting the strategic value of pausing during investor presentations.
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“One of the best, you know, mechanisms I've found is Just pause, take a breath, and the beauty of this is it also gives you an opportunity to listen. That pause, when somebody has a question, you don't have to interrupt them, you don't have to continue the flow and keep going. Reflect, like, you know, and that point of reflection is only made possible because that pause gives you the opportunity to absorb, reflect, and then respond rather than react.”
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