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7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2020 by Dhruv Kapoor · said 62 times in 23 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 26 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2020 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Cisco, oldest first
Jun 21, 2020 positive
Jun 29, 2020
Dash: IVP passed on Zoom by underestimating cloud and overestimating Cisco
“What we got wrong on that one is we underestimated the sheer size Of the transition going on with sort of cloud communications. And we also probably overestimated the ability of the incumbents, namely Cisco and others to beat the startups.”
Nov 10, 2023 positive
Dec 9, 2023 positive
Ghosh: Bangalore's tech explosion took multiple generations of development centers
“The Bangalore explosion didn't happen in one generation, right? Even when we were in college, I remember Texas Instruments built a major development center here, right? Cisco built a major development system. Analog Devices built a major development center in …”
Nov 29, 2024 neutral
Public tech markets are not in a dot-com style bubble today
“It's nothing like the bubble we saw in the year, 2000. Cisco as a provider of the plumbing for the internet is the closest comparable. Cisco is trading at 200 times earnings. So I don't think we're in bubble territory in the world of technology yet. I think th…”
Mar 26, 2026 positive
Jun 11, 2026 neutral
Saxena: AppDynamics could have reached a $50B-$70B valuation like Datadog
“Datadog was a much, much smaller company when AppDynamics was out there killing it. And Datadog today has, what, a 50, 60, seventy billion market cap. I don't even know. I haven't tracked it. That could have been AppDynamics.”