Anand Chandrasekaran

7 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2020 by Anand Chandrasekaran · said 12 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jun 1, 2020 negative
Insight
Chandrasekaran: Selling Breakout Startups Early Is One of the Worst Angel Moves
“So I've heard a lot of angel investors who are patient for two, three, four years, and then like exit soon as the company breaks out, right? And I would say this is probably one of the worse things you can do for yourself. And you know, if you sort of look at …”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 54:43 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Jun 1, 2020
Insight
Chandrasekaran: Investors Make Money on Successes but Reputations on Failures
“As they say you make your money with your successes, but you make your reputation with the failures, right? So honestly, I would say the question I would ask is, if you went through an experience where the founder didn't do well would that founder work with yo…”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 52:54 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Jun 1, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Chandrasekaran: Rupeek delivered a 90x to 100x return for angel investors
“It's been really honored, lucky to have been in the company since 2016, and there, I would say about a 90 to a hundred X return for the angel investors at this point.”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 19:04 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Jun 1, 2020 neutral
Insight
Chandrasekaran: Startups performing well rarely fail simply from capital scarcity
“I've actually I've not found a lot of examples where truly the company was doing well and deserved to raise capital and couldn't raise capital, right? Like, it largely could be traced to, like, either the cost structures or sort of getting ahead of where they …”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 30:47 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Jun 1, 2020
Assertion Partly supported
Chandrasekaran: 20 to 30 Indian Startups Reached Billion-Dollar Valuations Over 2010-2020
“Like in India over the last five to 10 years there have been probably 20 to 30 companies that have hit a billion dollar valuation. And globally, there is like just around 300 to three 50 companies.”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 58:55 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Jun 1, 2020 positive
Insight
Chandrasekaran: In a crisis, companies should build windmills rather than bunkers
“Obviously you need to conserve cash, you need to sort of get into survival mode but also you don't want to, like, go in a bunker And hide out until everything clears, right? You want to sort of build windmills that actually start leveraging what is going on in…”
Anand Chandrasekaran Jun 1, 2020 ▶ 37:04 Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
Dec 28, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Exfinity backed Mad Street Den for its pragmatic enterprise AI vision
“One is that we actually both Ashwini and Anand have been really stellar founders. I think what we liked about them is the fact that how they were looking at the application of AI, you know, so AI per se, a lot of funds do it. And every second company that you …”
Shailesh Ghorpade Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 9:36 Shailesh Ghorpade on Exfinity's journey to partner with the best SaaS startups of India
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