Pratik Poddar
14 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 4, 2025 by Pratik Poddar · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Pratik Poddar's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Mentions by year
brought up most by Vaibhav Sisinty (2)
tap a year for its mentions
Everything said about Pratik Poddar, oldest first
Nov 4, 2025 negative
Poddar: Passing on Meesho was a "stupid mistake"
“I think Misho was a big miss. And I think the reason was the same. I assumed that this would be a feature on Flipkart or Snapdeal or Amazon. Because you have, they have logistics, they have payments, they have supply base, they have user base, they have consum…”
Nov 4, 2025
Poddar: Founders can change everything except market size and profit pools
“Market size matters a lot more than people, than, at least as an entrepreneur, I gave importance to. You can change everything, but you cannot change market size really. Best entrepreneurs can create the market, but still market size has to be there. There has…”
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Poddar: Nexus's Best SaaS Founders Historically Relocated To The US
“And by the way, this was true. Even with SaaS. Ah, this was true even with 10 years back, 15 years back with SaaS. That's right. That the best founders, which we invested in, would eventually go to US, and the follow-on rounds would happen in the US market.”
Nov 4, 2025
Poddar: Counting out startups because incumbents can compete is a mistake
“I thought that large companies can do a lot And so startups, the startup will fail, that startup will fail, and that was a stupid mistake that I did for many companies. I think large companies move at their own pace, and that's why entrepreneurial energy is im…”
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Poddar: Founder storytelling is critical in fundraising-heavy categories
“Storytelling is more important in categories where fundraising is important in future as well. So there have been many good founders who have good, been good execution guys, but they have not been able to raise capital later. And so the company has not done ve…”
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Poddar: Outlier VC returns only come from non-consensus investment decisions
“Hardly any good deal has happened where there was complete consensus. So, because outlier outcomes will only come when there's no consensus. So one person has to truly, truly, strongly believe in it, and then of course debate, fight it out, get other people fe…”
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Nov 4, 2025 bullish
Poddar: The India-US Startup Corridor Model Will Continue In AI
“So it was just, I think it will happen in AI as well, and that is okay. In fact, many companies that we have invested in US where there was limited India angle, There as well, ah, just helping them build the India team, helping them get India, ah, distribution…”
Nov 4, 2025
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Poddar: I inspect younger people's phones to spot emerging app trends
“Whenever I meet a younger person, I actually look at his phone, look at his or her phone. I look at everything that the guy that those guys do. Some people hate me for it. But if you like, if I meet your niece or someone like that right now, I'll actually take…”
Nov 4, 2025
Nov 4, 2025 bullish