Amit Somani

9 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2019 by Amit Somani · said 155 times in 127 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Amit Somani's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Mentions by year

brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (114), Sanjay Swamy (8), Shripati Acharya (3)

tap a year for its mentions
0030256050202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
02550202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
00125250202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 26 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
2022 38 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
2021 34 mentions in 34 episodes 1 per episode
2020 56 mentions in 48 episodes 1 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Amit Somani, oldest first

Sep 17, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Amit Somani Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 10:13 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Sep 17, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Somani: Prime prefers investing in complete teams with a validated MVP
“The ideal stage is when you have your team complete and you probably have at least a little bit of an MVP that you've got some early validation. I wouldn't even say traction or metrics, but just so you've got the team, you've got an idea, you know what market …”
Amit Somani Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 13:36 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Sep 17, 2019
Disclosure
Somani: Prime makes only four to five startup investments per year
“The reason we make time for you is we only do four to five investments a year. All partners will work with every company, whatever it takes.”
Amit Somani Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 37:27 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Sep 17, 2019 positive
Insight
Somani: Professionals should take a one-year sabbatical every ten years
“I have this belief that every 10 years people should take a year off on a self-imposed sabbatical or jobbatical and take that time for self-discovery, take that time to find yourself, take that time to learn about what else is happening.”
Amit Somani Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 1:00 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Sep 17, 2019 positive
Insight
Somani: The best products attract both intense customer love and hate
“As a product management theory, I'm a real big believer that some of the best products which have a lot of customer love will also have a lot of customers that hate that or prospects that hate that.”
Amit Somani Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 33:58 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Sep 28, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Somani: Prime Ventures Podcast Has Led to Zero Investment Deals
“I can tell you for a fact that this has led to zero deals or transactions at prime, but it has led to a lot of interesting conversations, lots of learnings and lots of people being grateful.”
Amit Somani Sep 28, 2020 ▶ 22:35 Behind The Scenes: Making of Prime Ventures podcast & 100x Entrepreneur podcast with Amit Somani
Sep 28, 2020 positive
Insight
Somani: Producing a podcast requires a product management mindset and distribution rigor
“And what we learned is it is almost like doing a product, like in product management. There's a lot that goes into the podcast. It's not just like you said, audio recording shared on a G drive or LinkedIn. It's about the, you know, the cadence of the podcast, …”
Amit Somani Sep 28, 2020 ▶ 4:56 Behind The Scenes: Making of Prime Ventures podcast & 100x Entrepreneur podcast with Amit Somani
May 5, 2023 positive
Insight
VCs raise Fund 1 on partners, Fund 2 on founders, Fund 3 on returns
“He said that your first fund is raised on the reputation of the partners. The second fund is raised on your reputation of your founders. And the third fund is raised on the performance of the funds.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 21:19 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Jun 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Amit Somani Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 8:21 Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.