Karan Bajaj
16 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 12, 2020 by Pratik Poddar · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jul 12, 2020 neutral
May 16, 2021
Surviving the worst-case career outcome makes subsequent risk-taking easier
“If the worst case has happened and like, I'm okay, like, you know, it's not great when it happens, but like, you know, in the pros of having taken a big leap for growth is much more than the cons of having to, I think that liberated me. So the subsequent loop …”
May 16, 2021
WhiteHat Jr scaled from ₹1 crore to ₹100 crore monthly in six months
“I did one crore of revenue in about, one crore per month of revenue in about the first nine months. With less than 20 people. One crore per month of revenue I hit, and after that I did a hundred crores of per month of revenue in six months. So every month I do…”
May 16, 2021 negative
May 16, 2021 neutral
Blitzscaling founders must strictly prioritize only potential forest fires
“When you're blitzkilling, I hope many entrepreneurs reach that state when they are going from one to hundred crores. It's a very fun journey. There are fires everywhere that you can see, right? Your job is to figure out the fire. The forest, the small fire tha…”
May 16, 2021
WhiteHat Jr conducted daily one-hour reviews of 20 key metrics
“There's a practice that we had at 10 o'clock in the morning. We would look at all the metrics, 10 to 11 o'clock for the day that went past. And I still do that daily without a break, right? We look at How many people signed up for the trial from which medium? …”
May 16, 2021
WhiteHat Jr defined PMF as 50 NPS, 50% renewals, 10-12% conversions
“I had defined that product market fit would be when Net Promoter Score hits 50. We were rigorously measured Net Promoter Score from the first day of the company. When Net Promoter Score would hit 50, renewals would hit 50 percentage, because I knew I would be …”
May 16, 2021
Creative industries see 90% failure and only 1% breakout success
“All of these industries I've seen is that they follow surprisingly a very similar pattern. Where 90% of will fail out of the remaining 10%, nine percent will be equal to doing a job, right? The payouts or the, kind of, the end outcomes will be very similar to …”
May 16, 2021
Doing one creative endeavor well temporarily empties the creator's well
“The great part about doing one creative activity well, whether that's a startup or a, Novel is that it takes all of what you have as a human being, I guess, and you pour it into that creative activity, and after that, in a way, the well runs dry.”
May 16, 2021 positive
WhiteHat Jr delivered a 10x exit for investors in under a year
“I'd raise only ten million dollars. Right. The last round company was valued at only nine months ago was valued at thirty million dollars. Three hundred million dollars straight cash deal would get all of the investors at least a 10 X exit in minimum in less t…”
May 16, 2021 positive
May 16, 2021
Raising too much capital makes mutually satisfying acquisitions nearly impossible
“It's very hard for the acquirer, the acquired and the investors to be happy, right? Because if you raise too much money, valuations become out of control. Acquirer who's looking at a company with such exaggerated valuations will always pause, right? On the oth…”
May 16, 2021
May 16, 2021
Job search duration in months equals target salary divided by $20,000
“I had a mathematical framework that the salary divided by 20,000 dollars is the amount of time it takes to find a job. So if you're making 200,000 dollars, it'll take you 10 months to find a job. If you're making 400,000, it'll take you like 20 months, right? …”
May 16, 2021
Scaling rapidly to justify billion-dollar valuations compromises founder missions
“To be a billion dollar company the investors look for a two to three billion dollar exit, right? To be a three billion dollar company, you have to kind of scale up to that level in a very short period of time. Lot of choices get made that are not truly in line…”