The Morpheus

also referred to as: morpheus

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2021 by Sameer Guglani · said 47 times in 8 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sameer Guglani (25), Siddhartha Ahluwalia (11), Arun Venkatachalam (4), Abhishek Rungta (2), Prashant Pansare (1), Gaurav Munjal (1)

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Dec 13, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guglani: All Morpheus Fund 1 investors profited and still hold equity
“All of them who invested in our first fund actually made a, have already made a decent amount of money and there is still equity left in that.”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 15:36 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021 negative
Insight
Guglani: Startups founded purely for popularity or external validation never go far
“If the reason is an external achievement that I wish to achieve popularity, validation, or certain financial outcome for myself, or I need to prove something in the world. No, that will never go too far.”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 41:39 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Guglani: Morpheus originated by offering 8-10 weekly advising hours for 1% equity
“I came up with this number of one percent and I said, Hey, we'll do one percent equity and me and Nandini will help you eight to 10 hours a week. And basically we do a six months resting so that if there's a breakup in between you know, one can kind of settle …”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 10:47 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021 negative
Opinion
Guglani: Late-stage funded startups become miserable, dark workplaces obsessed with growth
“From a very happy and light workplace, which is creating magic, it started transitioning into a unhappy, miserable, little, but dark workplaces where there was a lot of focus on growth and valuation without really caring about what was happening to the humans …”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 18:45 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Guglani: Morpheus shut down because ecosystem founders prioritized valuation over culture
“And we tried to talk to founders, nobody was interested. So we took a call to shut down the project. We did not want to be part of that kind of ecosystem.”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 19:05 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021
Assertion Supported
Ahluwalia: Practo, CommonFloor, and HackerRank emerged from Morpheus
“Some of the known companies out of Morpheus are Practo, Common Floor, Hacker rank.”
Siddhartha Ahluwalia Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 2:13 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Dec 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guglani: Vijay Shekhar Sharma was the first check in Morpheus's third fund
“Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the first guy to give us a check. Rajan was there, Rajan and then Bloom, India Push and Ganesh, all of our LPs, previous ones, they repeated, they brought their friends.”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 15:59 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
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