Kunal Bahl

18 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 18, 2021 by Kunal Bahl · said 74 times in 10 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (31), Rohit Bansal (9), Bipin Shah (7), Ishan Sharma (4), Viraj Sheth (3), Anirudh Singla (3), Vani Kola (2), Kapil Makhija (1)

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Jan 18, 2021 neutral
Insight
Bahl: Founders who avoid problem-solving burn out within a year
“It's very easy for folks who don't approach building a business as a constellation of interesting problems, opportunities you know, interactions and relationship building with smart people. My sense is you know, even one year is too long for them to probably s…”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 16:50 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bahl: Titan Capital is the first check in over 90% of its 150+ investments
“In vast majority of the companies we invest in, more than 90% of the 150 plus companies we've invested in, we are the first check-in. Sometimes we are the only check-in, the company, when we invest.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 54:12 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Bahl: Titan Capital's First D2C Investment Was Beardo in 2014-2015
“I recall our first investment in that space was Beardo, which is a male grooming company. This is back in 2014 or 15.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 28:02 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021
Insight
Bahl: Curiosity cannot be learned and is largely innate
“I don't think you can read up to become curious. I think it has a lot to do with your upbringing, your, maybe your brain's biochemistry.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 36:14 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021
Assertion Contradicted
Bahl: First funds of most Indian VCs date to 2006–2007 vintage
“I think venture capital really, most of the, First generation funds. The first funds of most of the existing VCs in the market are the 2006, 2007 vintage, right? So they also didn't have a, they hadn't seen full cycles. Now they've seen two, three cycles.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 52:35 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Bahl: All of Titan Capital's D2C Portfolio Companies Are Profitable
“And what we really like is that all these businesses have High gross margins. They are all profitable companies and hence are quite self-reliant and not, not as dependent on, on external capital.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 32:28 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021
Disclosure
Bahl: Titan Capital invests only proprietary capital without external LPs
“Yeah, no, no external capital. Maybe that's why we can be a bit more you know, seemingly irrational about taking outsized risks at the stage at which we invest.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 54:30 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021 positive
Opinion
Bahl: Long-term entrepreneurial stamina requires a soulmate-level co-founder
“I don't think it would be possible to maintain one's energy levels, one's excitement, one's intellectual curiosities, one's ability to deal with challenges if it weren't for a very, very, very high quality, but more importantly a co-founder who is almost like …”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 17:54 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2041
Bahl: India Will Create Hundreds of $100M+ Brands in 10-20 Years
“And our view was there'll be hundreds of more than a hundred million dollar each brands created over the coming, you know, 1020 years in our country.”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 29:01 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 18, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Titan Capital initially doubted Urban Company's market size and operational feasibility
“We originally had thought that the market size may be limited and operationally it may be very hard because you would have to deal with a lot of blue collar and relatively less trained or only vocationally trained workforce. So how do you bring homogeneity of …”
Kunal Bahl Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 39:24 Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Shah: Titan Capital deploys only proprietary capital from Kunal and Rohit
“We are not a fund structure where we have external capital. This is purely Kunal and Rohit prop proprietary capital. And so that is the reason we had to keep exiting from mature companies.”
Bipin Shah Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 24:34 The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Jan 24, 2022 positive
Opinion
Shah: Kunal Bahl's paranoia and restlessness drive constant startup innovation
“What I have learned, especially from Kunal he's very paranoid and it's very difficult to calm him and stabilize him. You know, he, he's always thinking that he's missing something and he figures it out and then he comes up with a lot of new ideas.”
Bipin Shah Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 43:16 The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ola took four to five months to raise its initial angel round
“His job profile in 2011 12 was to create presentation for Ola to raise their seed round, and their office was in Dreams Mall Bombay. And I used to discuss with him, they, it took them four, five months to raise their, that Indian engine network, Rihani R. Khan…”
Bipin Shah Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 33:57 The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Jan 24, 2022
Assertion Supported
Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal Began Angel Investing in Mid-2011
“When I joined, he had already invested in Ola, Urban Clap, and Razorpay out of six unicorns in our portfolio. Three, he had already invested. They started investing mid 2011 Agrostar and Ola were first investments.”
Bipin Shah Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 5:32 The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Shah: Titan Capital invests in one to three of ten weekly meetings
“If I meet 10 companies a week, we end up investing two. Maybe I would be discussing with Kunal and Rohit, maybe three or four companies. Out of 10, I am meeting a week. And out of those four, we end up investing in one to two or three, depending on whether the…”
Bipin Shah Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 12:43 The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Dec 29, 2023
Assertion Supported
Snapdeal Was Born Because Kunal Bahl's US Visa Was Rejected
“Finally Kunal's visa got rejected. So he called me and said, Look, I am coming back anyways. We've been discussing this, but it was still very tentative. And once I get this call from Kunal that look, I am anyways coming back now. So my visa is rejected. So I'…”
Rohit Bansal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 6:58 Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
Dec 29, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Snapdeal Sold Only 10 Coupon Booklets Out of 50,000 Printed Initially
“So we printed 50,000 copies of a booklet, which had a shelf life of six months because all those coupons were expiring six months. The day we launched in the next Six weeks, we sold 10 copies or some single digit number, like literally 10, seven, something lik…”
Rohit Bansal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 39:51 Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
Dec 29, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Titan Capital Saw 100x+ Returns on Ola, Urban Company, and Mamaearth
“We've had some companies, which, you know, is out there in the media, which have done, done a great sort of great hundreds, as they say, a hundred X plus returns, whether it's an Ola or an urban company or a Credgenics, Hoff Business, Mamark.”
Rohit Bansal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 57:52 Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
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