Alok Goyal
22 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2023 by Alok Goyal · said 12 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jan 9, 2023 negative
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Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Goyal: Number of Indian $100M+ ARR SaaS companies will grow exponentially
“I think of this as an exponential curve, Siddharth, not as a linear curve. You build one today, you build three tomorrow, you build nine the year after, and then 27 the year after. So, I think of it as an exponential journey and not a linear journey.”
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Goyal: VCs are just capital conduits, not world-changers
“We are actually just a conduit for the money supply chain. It's somebody else's money goes to somebody else. We just happened to put our signatures on that checkbook. We think we change the world. We don't. It's clearly the entrepreneurs who change the world a…”
Jan 9, 2023 bearish
Goyal: Large SaaS companies cannot be built without US success
“I still continue to believe that there is no software company to be built unless you can be successful in US. And I hope I'll be wrong soon, and I want to be wrong actually, genuinely on that, but not yet. I don't think in 10 years I have seen that ability to …”
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Goyal: Founders succeed through exceptional spikes rather than lack of flaws
“At least we believe, Siddharth, that there is no perfect founder. There is no perfect human being, actually. And people succeed despite their flaws. People succeed because there is some spike that they have that actually covers up for all their flaws. So, our …”
Jan 9, 2023 negative
Goyal: Stellaris passed on Postman's seed round due to lacking understanding
“Is why I left Postman. In fact, if I may admit, I couldn't even understand what they did at that point in time. I looked at it at the same time as others did in seed stage. One of my colleagues was very keen, actually, that we do it, but I couldn't even unders…”
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Goyal: Whatfix would have died if they followed most of my advice
“You know, if WhatFix had listened to most things I had said, I think they'll be dead five years back. The reason they're successful is because they apply their own judgment, and I'm not saying that everything I've said was wrong, but we sit at a distance.”
Nov 10, 2023 neutral
Sharma: Alok Goyal was the only VC at the 2016 UPI launch
“And on, on, on February 11th or February 13th, I forget the date, ah, of 2016, was in, in Taj Vivanthal, ah, the sandbox that was launched. And 321 people came for that. I remember that because, you know, everybody had to register. There was only one VC amongs…”
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Goyal: Indian founder ambition scales as ecosystem benchmarks like Swiggy emerge
“Now when a Swiggy goes public at a more than a ten billion dollar valuation, You will find people thinking much, much bigger than what they used to in the past. So I think just the bar of the ecosystem gradually changes, but I think we are progressing there ve…”
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Goyal: Stellaris approves roughly 80% of deals brought to its investment committee
“Usually about 80% or so, maybe three out of four or four out of five actually do sail through in our case, which is, which goes back to the principle that by and large, we want to back the conviction of the deal team.”
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Goyal: Venture deals should never require consensus or allow individual vetoes
“We do not believe consensus is a great way to make decisions for venture deals. We also believe that nobody should have a veto. No single individual is so smart. Across sectors that they know what the world will look like in eight to 10 years data suggests tha…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Goyal: Stellaris enforces strict sector boundaries for its investment team
“We took a call right at the beginning that we will be organized by sectors. And these are fairly hard gated boundaries of sectors. If I do SAS, then I do SAS. When I find a FinTech deal, I'm actually going to send it to him. I'm not going to do that because qu…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Stellaris has led rounds where existing investors refused to reinvest
“There are multiple companies in our portfolio, which had existing investors in the company. They decided not to Put more money behind those companies and despite their signaling, we have actually come and led the rounds in those companies also.”