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Pawan Raj Kumar

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2019 by Pawan Raj Kumar · across every show →

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Sep 14, 2019 positive
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Kumar: Angel investing provided skin in the game to learn tech
“I thought that if I invest some money, I'll have more skin in the game and hence have more you know initiative or motivation to learn about it. So I did that. I invested in a few companies. I became an angel investor.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 8:01 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 positive
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Kumar: McDonald's account grew to triple company's prior revenue in six years
“In other six years, we were doing three times more than what our company was doing just with McDonald's.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 3:06 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019
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Pawan Raj Kumar bases 75% of angel investment decisions on founder passion
“That's a very, very important factor for me, and I think 75% of my decision is made with that. Rest 25 is about how big the market is, how much share can be taken, is there an environment which can affect, ah, because I will make money only when somebody else,…”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 24:06 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 negative
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Kumar: Angel investing should not be a primary income source
“It's a very risky. I'm not advising anybody to make make it a business, make it a source of income. It's not. It's very risky and it's risk capital totally.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 20:37 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019
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Kumar: Family business received 12x EBITDA acquisition offer in 2012
“It was more on EBITDA than on the run rate. So it was it was about 12, 12 X EBITDA for a manufacturing company, which is pretty much getting into commoditized thing. It was a fantastic offer, but it wasn't 400 crores.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 14:46 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 negative
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Kumar: Businesses driven purely by discounts lack value creation
“If I am a salesman of discounts, then it's not a business I want to be in because I wasn't adding any more value.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 6:54 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 negative
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Kumar: Founders waste money pivoting based on non-investing VCs' free advice
“Every investor gives some kind of a guidance without investing. So they would change their path. They would do things and wasted a lot of time and money doing that.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 28:09 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 neutral
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Kumar: Startup outcomes depend strictly on market size and focus, not passion
“Where people succeeded or failed was about the size of the market that they were actually trying to get to. And second was the focus.”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 26:24 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
Sep 14, 2019 negative
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Kumar: Founders must stick to their vision rather than pivoting for investors
“Once you start a business and you've got some passion and some, got some inspiration behind it, you have to stick it out for a while. And you have to prove it to yourself that it works or doesn't work more than Following what somebody else says, especially the…”
Pawan Raj Kumar Sep 14, 2019 ▶ 5:01 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
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