Hemant Mohapatra
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 24, 2020 by Hemant Mohapatra · across every show →
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Feb 24, 2020
Mohapatra: Founders must transition from execution to resource deployment after 18 months
“You should do a lot of things that are unscalable in the first year, first one and a half years, but beyond that, You almost have to level yourself up and elevate yourself to almost like a chess master, right? So where you can see the entire board and you are …”
Feb 24, 2020
Mohapatra: Real company culture allows junior employees to overrule the CEO
“Would somebody junior in your company win an argument with a senior most person or a CEO of a company if this junior person says, I disagree with you. Why? Because this is not Adhering to our principle of doing right by the customer, and would this person win …”
Feb 24, 2020
Mohapatra: Top companies succeed through distribution engines rather than superior products
“Most of the best companies, best by that I mean, the most well-known companies don't always have the best product. They have the best engines to put the product in the hands of consumers, and iterating on that quickly to improve the product.”
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Mohapatra: India lacks the experienced middle management layer found in US startups
“The middle layer is is where I think India lacks quite a lot, and the U.S. Is very, very, very, has a very, very thick middle layer, which is the VP and the directors, you know, especially in product sales and engineering. There are a lot many more Shelly Sand…”
Feb 24, 2020
Mohapatra: Lightspeed India decides on investments within at most three founder meetings
“On average, to optimize for not wasting the founder's time, we keep our meetings to three at most. First meeting could be with a partner. Second would be with at least one more partner to just get another pair of eyes on that deal. And third could be with the …”
Feb 24, 2020 positive
Mohapatra: To Win and Profit, Operate 80% Gross Margin Businesses
“Ended up realizing, after spending six years there, ended up realizing that, you know, you have, if you want to win and make money, you have to be in a 80% gross margin, you know, business versus a 20% gross margin business, which is what chip design and chip …”
Feb 24, 2020
Mohapatra: Investment theses should evolve from founder conversations, not top-down VC research
“My philosophy is that entrepreneurs will almost always, not almost, I think they will always and always know a lot more than you about the market and where the market is moving and where the white spaces are. So my preference there is to not think a lot about …”