Kushal Bhagia
8 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2021 by Kushal Bhagia · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Nov 1, 2021
First Cheque invests almost blindly if a venture partner vouches for founders
“If the deal has come through a venture partner, and if the venture partner knows the founder, right, and is watching for the founder, then we will almost blindly invest. Then it doesn't even, like, as long as it's a VC fundable space, we'll go ahead and invest…”
Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021 neutral
May 16, 2025 negative
Bhagia: Indian VC deal paperwork takes two to six months to close
“The paperwork also in India is insane. Us sold it many years back and like here, which we take anywhere from two to six months to just close the deal. And most VCs don't think of it as their job. They just hand it off to the legal thing. This guy will do it. A…”
May 16, 2025 negative
May 16, 2025 neutral
Bhagia: Mega-fund strategy inherently degenerates into a capital deployment problem
“I think one big disadvantage for the larger funds also that the bigger you become, right? Your fund strategy becomes a deployment problem. Cause how many, if you run a fine and million dollar fund. Even if I give somebody five million dollars, it's like one pe…”
May 16, 2025 positive
Bhagia: Y Combinator is the only VC brand that outlived its founders
“I think everybody else, the, how much of an institution you build, if the people change the funds ranking changes. Like Kleiner Perkins used to be one of the top funds. They then went down, right? That cycle keeps repeating in the Valley as well by sees the on…”
May 16, 2025
Bhagia: Passed on Zepto co-founder Adit Palicha's early Kirana Kart pitch
“Adit came to me also back then, right? He said, I'm in Stanford. I'm, if you give me money, I'll quit. I said, like, I've just not heard of it's like, show me something at least. And that time he was doing the Kirana card model. So it's just very hard to back …”