DPI

11 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2024 by Ashish Fafaria · across every show →

Everything said about DPI, oldest first

Jan 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fafaria: Blume achieved 15% DPI on Fund I before raising Fund II
“We had a 15% DPI. We got to that point where some small exits had happened.”
Ashish Fafaria Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 43:15 Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Southeast Asia lags on DPI realizations but will eventually improve
“Southeast Asia is still earlier on its journey and has not actually, in my opinion, shown as much from a realization DPI standpoint. I think that will improve.”
Hunter Somerville Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 33:33 Global VC's Honest Opinion About India's Startup Ecosystem Explained | Stepstone Group Partner
Jun 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Evaluating VC managers solely on DPI causes LPs to miss emerging talent
“If you're waiting around and just judging what people have done on a realized basis or in DPI, you're not going to have a good sense for the momentum in those managers, and you'll probably wait too long to eventually pick A really interesting up and coming gro…”
Hunter Somerville Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 5:58 Global VC's Honest Opinion About India's Startup Ecosystem Explained | Stepstone Group Partner
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Doddala: 2.8x to 3.0x DPI typically marks top-quartile venture fund performance
“Typically 2.8 to three puts you in the top quartile on depending on the vintage and some vintages, it may not, some vintages, it may put you in the top decile.”
Raja Doddala Jul 5, 2024 ▶ 32:37 2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Goyal: DPI is the only venture metric that ultimately matters
“LPs as well as GPS. We have all realized that all numbers are good, but there's only one number that eventually matters. And that is DPI, right?”
Alok Goyal Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 27:02 $600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Banglani: VCs should focus on controllable input metrics rather than DPI
“DPI is an output variable Siddharth. We don't really measure ourselves on the on the output that's for our LPs to do. That's for the market to do. We measure ourselves on our ability to attract the best entrepreneurs to ourselves. So, and we try to measure tha…”
Ritesh Banglani Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 3:13 $600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Sharma: India Gets An A In Tech But D-Minus In Business
“We do well with the technology architecture, you know, protocols and platforms and how to think about them. I would say we get an A there. We do pretty poorly B minus for the regulatory architecture on top of that. We do our ecosystem building organizations, w…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 59:59 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Insight
Sharma: India Risks Losing Its Tech Edge by Prematurely Abandoning Underdog Mindset
“We get a little bit of a chance. We go from being the underdog to the top dog, and we think everything is sorted out. And this is our problem even, even in DPI. And so it's very, very important that we maintain an underdog mindset.”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 27:47 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sharma: Only 30 Percent Of Regulators Understand DPI Concepts
“If I take a hundred regulators, I would say only about 20, 30 of them have a good understanding of this. Another 20, 30 have heard of it, but they don't have a very good understanding and 20, 30 have not even heard of it.”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 46:07 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sharma: Term DPI First Originated In A 2022 Government Press Release
“In fact, the word DPI itself is, is relatively new, you know, as a term, it was used for the first time on September 1320, 22. In a press release that the government of India gave to announce what would be the focus areas for G-Twenty”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 12:51 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sharma: Government Tech Is Only DPI If It Enables Private Innovation
“They think every open source project is a DPI. They think every government tech is DPI, which is not true. Some government tech is DPI. If it enables private entrepreneurship or private innovation to happen on type on top, some open sources DPI. And all DPI is…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 14:13 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
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.