BharatPe

20 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2021 by Mitesh Shah · said 37 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (25), Suhail Sameer (5), Rajan Anandan (2), Mitesh Shah (2), Sharad Sharma (1), Ishaan Mittal (1)

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Everything said about BharatPe, oldest first

Mar 30, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Mitesh Shah: IPV achieved an 80x return on its BharatPe investment
“As we all know, as we discussed about in the media, it's an ATX return.”
Mitesh Shah Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 14:42 Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
Mar 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitesh Shah: BharatPe had no monetization or growth plan at seed stage
“Think of it two and a half years ago when like I said, I'm just reiterating myself that it's that belief in that founder at that point of time where the idea that he came up with you know there was no plan for monetization. There was no plan how the growth wil…”
Mitesh Shah Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 16:52 Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Suhail Sameer: BharatPe maintained 10% monthly growth throughout its governance crisis
“Kept on growing. 10% month on month through the chaos actually at some points faster.”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 14:16 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Insight
Sameer: Younger generalists excel at zero-to-one execution due to less baggage
“I generally believe generalists and Younger folks have that skill a lot more because there's a lot less baggage of what I know, right?”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 20:31 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sameer: BharatPe still operates at 80% to 90% of its earlier execution speed
“By and large, every process we've implemented may have slowed down slightly, but I would not say we are, we operate still probably at 80 to 90% of what we were probably two years back in terms of speed to market and action, but has just managed to ensure that …”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 26:21 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Sameer: BharatPe processed 50 crore INR in daily transactions when he joined
“And when I joined, we used to do 50 crore of transactions a day.”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 3:49 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Insight
Sameer: Processes must either systematically add value or increase execution speed
“Process has to either systematically add value or has to make you faster. If it is neither of the two, at least I have no respect for that process, right?”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 26:07 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nakrani: BharatPe intentionally priced its last private round below term sheet offers
“Even in the last round, we offered a valuation lesser than the term sheet set.”
Shashvat Nakrani Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 48:43 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Insight
Sameer: Fast-growing startup leadership requires fungible generalists, not siloed specialists
“I think if a business is growing this fast, you to be fungible in the roles you play. You can't operate as, ah, I only see marketing because it comes. Right. And that's the job for the next level of team to be really good at what they are doing. But the top tw…”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 7:59 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Assertion Supported
Sameer: BharatPe generated $2M to $3M annual revenue when he joined
“At least the time I joined, we were just about like, I think we used to do like two, three million dollars a year type revenue, right?”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 8:29 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Sameer: BharatPe will not IPO before reaching P&L profitability
“So, but we would not do a public offer before sort of, ah, turning green on a P&L point of view.”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 47:22 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Sameer: BharatPe operates with a total team of 600 people
“Our whole company is 600 people, right? And this includes a heavy feud on street nature of our business, right?”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 16:16 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Insight
Sameer: Fast founder-driven decision-making must eventually transition to professional management
“Every company starts as a founder driven company and it helps the company very quickly take decisions, very quickly move on. At some stage you could do that transition, right?”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 5:30 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Nakrani: BharatPe scaled from 20 crore to 20,000 crore INR valuation
“Our first round was a 20 CR valuation and last round was a 20,000 CR.”
Shashvat Nakrani Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 48:32 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Insight
Suhail Sameer: Good pure-tech products hit one million users within three months
“Companies which are multi-product companies like ours, if they struggle on zero to one, it is a function of they getting married to the product idea too much, right? Like in our type of business, it's full tech. If it is a good product in three months, it will…”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 29:48 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Insight
Suhail Sameer: Tech testing requires 90% product readiness compared to 50% in FMCG
“Here, if you launch a bad product, it can very quickly sort of erode trust, right? And I think that's something I had to sort of consciously learn. 90% right is okay, but unlike my previous sort of roles where 50% right is okay to test in the market, it's a ve…”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 37:41 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shashvat Nakrani: BharatPe governance investigation was driven entirely by external board advisors
“We were not involved in the process. It was driven by the board and the external folks who were engaged.”
Shashvat Nakrani Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 13:33 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Assertion Supported
Nakrani: BharatPe launched India's first interoperable zero-MDR QR code
“So when we launched the QR code, it was India's first interoperable zero MDR QR code.”
Shashvat Nakrani Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 1:10 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sameer: BharatPe has enabled credit for 500k of its 10m merchants
“Today also we have, as you said, a crore merchant but we've enabled loans for only five lakhs.”
Suhail Sameer Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 42:37 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
Oct 10, 2022
Assertion Contradicted
Nakrani: BharatPe launched India's first daily installment merchant loan product
“When we launched the loan product, The lending product. It was India's first EDI product daily installment, which again was a very convenient and very new to merchants.”
Shashvat Nakrani Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 1:19 The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
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