Sharad Sharma

9 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 10, 2023 by Sharad Sharma · said 22 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Nov 10, 2023 negative
Opinion
Sharma: India's startup bottleneck is entrepreneur mindset, not capital or market
“Our choke point is no longer whether the ecosystem is ready, whether the market is ready, whether the investors are ready. Our, frankly, our entrepreneurs are not ready. And we have to therefore help them be ready.”
Sharad Sharma Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 50:29 UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
Nov 10, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sharma: Startups entering UPI after September 2017 effectively do not exist today
“The numbers for UPI started ticking up slowly only in September of 2017. And whoever entered the UPI market after September 2017 does not effectively exist.”
Sharad Sharma Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 39:06 UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
Nov 10, 2023 neutral
Insight
Sharma: Entering tech markets after the first S-curve inflection is too late
“Today, tech is all about S curve inflection. After the first S curve inflection happens, it's already too late to enter the market. Not only for the entrepreneur, but even for the early stage investor. I say to early stage investors that it's already come in t…”
Sharad Sharma Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 39:24 UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
Nov 10, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sharma: Alok Goyal was the only VC at the 2016 UPI launch
“And on, on, on February 11th or February 13th, I forget the date, ah, of 2016, was in, in Taj Vivanthal, ah, the sandbox that was launched. And 321 people came for that. I remember that because, you know, everybody had to register. There was only one VC amongs…”
Sharad Sharma Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 33:24 UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Sharma: Private Proposal Led To Government's ₹100,000 Crore R&D Allocation
“We went and said, look, so much experiment that has happened with philanthropic capital has to move into public capital, and perhaps we need to allocate 10,000 crores. Then we were told that's too little. It should be. So we said, okay, 25,000 crores is what y…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:40:36 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Sharma: Mukesh Bansal Volunteering To Drive Vigyanix Deep-Tech Effort
“In fact, our Vigyanic's effort, you know, he is one of the key volunteers driving this right now.”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:56:02 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sharma: Roughly $3B Will Be Spent On DPI Over Three Years
“We think there'll be roughly about you know, two to three billion dollars spent on the DPI ecosystem in the next three years.”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 25:29 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sharma: Deep-Tech Ecosystem Orchestrators Cannot Be In Their Twenties
“First of all, you can't be a sutradhar in your twenties. It's very difficult, right? Because you have to deal with complex things. You have to draw many stakeholders together, right? You got to take a whole of nation approach. So you got to be in your mid fort…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:46:17 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Sharma: Vigyanix Is Piloting Market-Rate Orchestrators In Deep-Tech Domains
“We're trying it out only in three areas right now. And those three areas are power electronics, AI compute, a narrow version of that, and to do with fabulous design. And we're going to experiment, try to get some Sutradhars who are in this category, who are no…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:47:40 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
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