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Rajul Garg

12 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2019 by Rajul Garg · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Oct 6, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Rajul Garg exited Pine Labs as a shareholder in 2008
“Yeah, so I actually exited Pine Labs in 2008 as a shareholder. I hired Lokvir, who was the CEO who sort of built the company over the 15 years between 2003 and 18, but I exited as a shareholder in eight, nine when Sequoia came in.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 6:32 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Disclosure
At least 10 of Rajul Garg's 28 angel investments completely failed
“Out of the 28 that I did, I think there's obviously a lot of them that didn't work out at all. They were like probably at least 10 companies which completely shut down. And offered zero return completely.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 17:11 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019 neutral
Insight
Investors could not predict Meesho's five-year scale in the 2015 seed round
“I felt for the business that he's chasing at that point of time. I felt he's the right guy to take it next one or two years. It was very hard to predict if he could take it all the way five years to the size of the business that it is today, right?”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 30:43 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Insight
Over-attachment causes bad founder decisions, while over-detachment drains fire
“I think if you get too attached, I think you take wrong decisions. If you get too detached also, you know, then the company lacks the passion and the fire of an entrepreneur, right? So I think balancing the two is definitely a difficult thing to do.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 9:11 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most founders pitch Leo Capital without researching the firm's portfolio
“I see still a vast majority of entrepreneurs don't take even five minutes to go through sort of what we've done, maybe our existing portfolio on our website, there's some frequently asked questions.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 45:45 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Insight
The only way to evaluate an investor is by their portfolio
“I think the only way you can really judge an investor in my view is to look at their portfolio. I think everything else is just talk, right? I mean, I can sort of talk endlessly, but you have to look where I put money in and that's what sort of defines me more…”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 46:19 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019 bearish
Opinion
Building a new Infosys or TCS is incredibly difficult today
“So I do think you have to always keep in mind the sort of the topicality, the times, like for example, you know, like you can't really build a new, I think it's hard to build like a new Infosys or TCS today. You know, there was a time through the eighties, ear…”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 4:48 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Both Pine Labs and GlobalLogic almost shut down in early years
“Like I remember there was a year where Pine Labs could totally shut down. There was a year where global logic could totally shut down, you know, but somehow survived and sort of we built on that.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 4:40 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Rajul Garg made 28 angel investments between 2010 and 2015
“And I made almost 28 investments, including BabyGoGo, between 2010 and 2015.”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 1:32 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GlobalLogic had only three months of runway left after 9/11
“So this is the time we had sort of global logic had started and we were still in the first year. And it was kind of a critical year for us. We had raised some funding as well. But we were struggling. We hadn't found product market fit and all that. So we had t…”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 39:32 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 6, 2019
Disclosure
Rajul Garg wrote the first investment check into Shuttl in 2015
“When we invested, so we, I was the first check back in 2015”
Rajul Garg Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 24:05 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
Oct 31, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Ahluwalia: In 2015, Rajul Garg gave me ₹2Cr and Meesho only ₹90L
“When in 2015, me and Vidit both had the same investor, Rajul Garg, and Rajul had given us two crores, a round of funding in the total, and Vidit had secured only 90 lakhs.”
Siddhartha Ahluwalia Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 9:43 Learning from our journey of building 100x Entrepreneur (now Neon)
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