Ranjeet Pratap Singh
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2021 by Ranjeet Pratap Singh · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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May 10, 2021 neutral
Singh: Pratilipi avoids negotiating deal terms in fundraising and partnerships
“Now, for example, I just don't negotiate. Like these are the key terms. If we agree on these, let's handshake and move ahead. Otherwise that's fine. Like I'll just find a different part. It's not just what fundraise. It's about everything else.”
May 10, 2021
Singh: Early friends funded Pratilipi via personal debt, rejecting equity
“I gave them actually three options. I gave them an option of just buying equity either at a fixed price or at a 50% discount or next round. Nobody took it. Then I offered people to kind of give debt to company and with a small equity upside, nobody again took …”
May 10, 2021
Pratilipi seeded early catalog with public domain works and 150 authors
“When we started building Pratipi, the first two things that we did was one that we got some public domain content and like the definition of public domain would be different in different countries, but in India, it's basically once a writer passes away 60 year…”
May 10, 2021
Singh: Connected IVM Podcasts to Amazon and other suitors before Pratilipi acquisition
“So I was essentially trying to help him raise money from someone else or that somebody else should acquire them, including Amazon, by the way. So I made connections between Amit and a bunch of other people like different VCs, different angel investors, differe…”
May 10, 2021
Singh: Pratilipi gives final project authority to whoever is executing it
“So it doesn't matter if you're the CEO or if you're the intern. If you are doing something, the final call is always works. Like, even if you're an intern, you can basically say, Ranjit, get out of the room. This is what I want to do. I have already decided th…”
May 10, 2021
May 10, 2021 positive
Pratilipi grants all employees access to company financials and CEO calendar
“So when we hire someone we are very picky in hiring, but once we hire someone, we give them insane amount of independence. They know almost everything about the company like literally from number of users to engagement details to revenue details to how much mo…”
May 10, 2021
Singh: Consensus never works when pursuing power law-driven outcomes
“The thing is that in general, in life, some of the absolute best things, like this is only applicable to power law driven outcomes, that some of the absolute best things, like the best hires, the best companies the best experiments, the best features are almos…”