Karthik Reddy
9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2019 by Karthik Reddy · said 36 times in 11 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Aug 16, 2019
Reddy: Venture firms cannot build enduring institutions with $20M-$30M funds
“You can't build a team. You can't build an institution with twenty million dollar funds, thirty million dollar funds. It's tough. It's a lifestyle business as we tell other people who come and pitch to us. You can make it a lifestyle business, but you can't in…”
Aug 16, 2019 negative
Reddy: Niche market startups must exit at 2x-3x or risk failure
“There's market conditions. So the crowd space gets super crowded and then the number of check writers disappear. There is niche markets, which we are guilty of funding in the first fund. Nobody seems to care about it after us. So then you're at two, three X, i…”
Aug 16, 2019 bullish
Karthik Reddy: Startups need institutional seed funds to bridge angel rounds to Series A
“And then I saw that there was a huge gap between the large series-ish funds, which were all above a hundred million, and the angels. And so we said that there's a huge gap here. It can't be that every company miraculously takes a few angel checks and becomes a…”
Aug 16, 2019 bullish
Reddy: Blume Ventures aims to reach $500M AUM by 2024
“By the fifth fund, which is maybe five years away and that's how far we've thought. So I don't know about 10 years, but five years is what we've thought. I want to be able to have five hundred million under management. That's when, that's 20, 24, right?”
Aug 16, 2019 negative
Aug 16, 2019 positive
Reddy: Founders cannot build large businesses without storytelling capacity
“But I think to say that you can actually build a very large business without a capacity to storytell is fooling yourself. It has nothing to do with VCs. How do you sell? How do you sell to your customers? How do you sell to your employees?”
Aug 16, 2019 bullish
Reddy: Indian VCs will make the most money backing edge cases, not copycats
“Those risky bets are the ones which are going to make the most money. Like my LPs tell me, historically, you were shying away from that. It's probably true. It was basically, you didn't know what's going to work, what's going to take off, so you're hedging, ma…”
Aug 16, 2019 neutral