Sachin Aggarwal
14 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2025 by Sachin Aggarwal · across every show →
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Nov 12, 2025
Aggarwal: I rejected blank-check security term sheets before defining StackGen's idea
“In fact, there were two investors who literally knew when I was saying, I'm going to be back on the blog, they told us, we'll get your terminal check, just do something in security, and we can figure out the idea together. I said, no, I'm not doing that, becau…”
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Aggarwal: Major cloud providers will never build cross-stack autonomous infrastructure solutions
“They probably won't because they'll stick to their own stack. And they'll always get limited to what they can do for their stack. They will never do a cross stack. Plus they will never go downstream to solve the problem.”
Nov 12, 2025 positive
Aggarwal: To achieve high growth, a startup's problem must be urgent
“The problem doesn't need to be just big and important. It also needs to be urgent. So, so I think a good combination of Big problem, an important problem, and urgent will get you success and give you the growth that you're looking for.”
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Aggarwal: I pick co-founders first and brainstorm for a year before launching
“Usually the way I work is that, I decide on a co-founder, And then we together brainstorm for almost a year, whether it's a good fit for us to work together, whether we like each other, what's your working style, we talk to, we pick up an idea, we validate it,…”
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Aggarwal: Accurics' sub-$200M sale to Tenable returned 6-7x for Series A investors
“So again, Acurex for the community sold little, little less than two hundred million dollar to Tenable, right? Ah, it was, I think for the investors, it was the highest return because, ah, I mean, literally a CDJ investor had a short term capital gain. For six…”
Nov 12, 2025 neutral
Aggarwal: Strategic partners doubling active fundraising valuations drove most of my exits
“In most of our cases, the timing has been that we are trying to raise new capital, and that's when we, one of our partners say, hey, don't raise this We will give you double the valuation that you are raising it at, and we take an exit”
Nov 12, 2025
Aggarwal: Every startup I built underwent a go-to-market pivot despite strong theses
“I don't recall any startup where we have not done a GTM pivot, and GTM pivot we, because I always feel that we have figured on day one, because we have very strong theses and everything, and every time I go to a journey, I say, wait a sec, we have not figured …”
Feb 13, 2026
Padval funded StackGen in seven days based on a prior relationship
“And we made a decision in the seed round in literally three hours... We were convinced of that, that we were able to present the following Tuesday to our IC, and then make the decision, go through IC, and actually fund the company in seven days, because we wer…”