Kirthiga Reddy

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2025 by Kirthiga Reddy · across every show →

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Jan 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reddy: SoftBank Vision Fund was actually highly disciplined and valuation-conscious
“While I know that that is the general perception that, you know, SoftBank comes in and gives more valuation you know, we were very, very, very valuation conscious. Deep Nishar made sure that he instilled a very good discipline in terms of how we invest. There …”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 51:49 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025
Disclosure
Reddy took a 40% pay cut post-MBA to become a startup PM
“I decided because I was going to go to product management to a startup, I went from being a director of engineering to being an individual contributor product manager, taking a 40% pay cut because that's what you do when you go to a startup and the payout is i…”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 18:23 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Reddy: SoftBank Vision Fund's Minimum Check Size Was $100 Million
“When I saw what SoftBank was doing their minimum check size was a hundred million.”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 46:15 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Reddy co-founded F-Seven seed fund with six female Facebook executives
“In that time, I actually started a seed fund with six other female Facebook executives. It was called F-Seven. And just like you have hashtag angels, this was our equivalent where we were seeing the dearth of women in investing and wanted to so we pulled toget…”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 44:04 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Reddy: Deployed Nearly $1B at SoftBank Across a $5B+ Portfolio
“Deployed almost a billion dollars of new investment, had an overall portfolio of over five billion, led their first quantum computing investment, their first additive manufacturing investment, their first mental wellness investment, did gaming, web three, bloc…”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 46:30 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Reddy: Wrote the programming code for classic engineering textbook 'Let Us C'
“If you pick up a letter C book, you'll see the acknowledgement for Kirtika Venkatraman, which is my maiden name for all of the programs that were written in that book.”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 5:25 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Reddy passed on pre-IPO Google, doubting the search engine market size
“When I was at in, I interviewed with Google during its pre-IPO times. And this during my MBA. Right. And I walked away thinking, how big can a search engine really be? Okay. Famous. So I, you know, I don't even think I pursued it like really hard. I just explo…”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 26:26 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025
Disclosure
Reddy personally interviewed Facebook India's first 100 hires regardless of level
“I committed to personally being part of the interview process for the first hundred hires, no matter what their level is.”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 35:48 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Reddy will personally back Pear Therapeutics founder Corey McCann again
“And by the way, this is a company that if Cordy starts another company tomorrow, I will personally still invest dollars in him because that's part of the founder journey, right?”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 54:06 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
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