Avnish Bajaj

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2025 by Avnish Bajaj · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Mar 21, 2025 neutral
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Bajaj: Maximizing deal coverage works in thin markets but fails in mature ones
“When the markets are thin, coverage is a good measure. So, including me, we used to go to IITs, we used to go to conferences, we used to speak at conferences, you know, honestly conferences, you get mobbed later, you are, you know, taking, giving out your card…”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 24:47 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025 neutral
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Bajaj: First 30–40 minutes reliably determine whether to back a founder
“It takes me about 30 to 40 minutes of my first meeting to figure out if this is a, it may not be fully yes, but that I'm getting excited, right? Then you have to do a lot more work and it has, there are, I would say, 20 to 30% of the time, I'll end up in a sit…”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:13:33 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025 bullish
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Bajaj: Almost everything in VC can be copied except reputation
“If you look at venture capital, if you look at most businesses, almost everything can be copied in no time. Reputation cannot. Reputation is a moat. Reputation compounds with time.”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 8:43 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025
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Bajaj: Multi-billion-dollar startup potential becomes clear within 18 to 24 months
“You don't know at the start you, but you typically, my experience has been. 18 to 36 months, mostly 18 to 24 months, one starts getting an idea. Is this a multi-billion dollar outcome or is this a capped out?”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:05:22 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Bajaj: Z47 measured investment team productivity on meeting volume until 2016
“Until 2000, 15, 16 they used to get measured on coverage. And you know, we had some review meetings where people would say, how many companies have you met and this, that. So it created what we call a met culture meeting. The quality of the meeting may have be…”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 24:05 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025
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Bajaj: Repeat founders give time to VCs only when they learn something
“My bet is that if you feel that you will learn something, you'll give your time. So that's the bar. The founder has to feel that they will learn something, right?”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 12:32 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
Mar 21, 2025 negative
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Bajaj: Z47 rejected an early Flipkart meeting due to market size doubts
“Flipkart in particular, believe it or not, Axel had called me and they said, you know, we are doing this book site. And because you are an e-commerce founder, we want to be involved. I was like, I don't have internet users. So I didn't take the meeting.”
Avnish Bajaj Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:11:43 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
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