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ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
- ▶ 5:43 unnamed speaker I think your last one was one twenty-five million at eight fifty million from First Bank, right?
- ▶ 31:06 unnamed speaker Before that, we raised our CDC, uh, from SoftBank, uh, in January of that year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:28 unnamed speaker But when you have investors like a SoftBank or a Menlo or anybody, nobody cares about, you know, a small company with some revenue.
He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari
- ▶ 0:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia That soft bank round happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, in Mobi, built Glance, raised from Soft, uh, Softbank, then raised from Reliance Jio.
- ▶ 28:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So like that soft bank round happened, they put in two hundred million dollars, uh, and right after that, uh, fundraise in Moby became unicorn overnight, right?
- ▶ 42:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Soft bank round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:40 Naveen Tewari I said, well, he runs Softbank. 2 times in the scene
How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- ▶ 52:05 Samay Kohli We worked with the SoftBanks, the Nikkeis, you know, like, humongous brands, right?
7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
- ▶ 48:13 Kapil Makhija Uh, then it is, uh, SoftBank, uh, which is through their balance sheet.
- ▶ 48:17 Kapil Makhija It's not through the Vision Fund.
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- ▶ 22:38 Sharath Narayana Uh, two to almost seven, seven to almost 18 when SoftBank came in and invested at almost a billion dollar valuation.
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 0:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You have been the first employee of Facebook in India, and then you went on to become the first female partner at SoftBank.
- ▶ 2:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Went on, you know, to, to become one of the first, I think, first female partner at SoftBank.
- ▶ 45:06 Kirthiga Reddy What I ended up doing was, um, as I explored what I wanted to do next, um, is, um, accepting a role with SoftBank. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 Kirthiga Reddy AI is changing the world was the, was the thesis of SoftBank Vision Fund.
- ▶ 47:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And which of the companies that you saw going public during SoftBank time? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:33 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I never knew that being also at SoftBank, kind of, you know, when you are cutting hundred to one billion dollar checks, you still have to compete for the best investments, because you can offer more valuation, more money than anybody… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:33 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What made you take a decision of, to, to move away from SoftBank? 3 times in the scene
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- ▶ 0:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You took up a role in SoftBank as a CFO, and then as a president.
- ▶ 2:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, you know, you took a, took up a role in soft bank as a CFO and then as a president, uh, once you had crossed 50, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 Alok Sama I kind of reinvented myself doing different things every few years and, uh, and, um, the SoftBank journey, likewise the same.
- ▶ 9:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I thought it, when I, when I first picked up the book, I thought it will be something maybe, you know, a bashy about soft bank, how it's all about money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 Alok Sama SoftBank.
- ▶ 12:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I think the SoftBank journey was like that.
- ▶ 16:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, I was looking forward to one particular thing in the book, your last one year at SoftBank.
- ▶ 19:06 Alok Sama As I described in the book, when he, um, or as we just discussed, I mean, when he joined SoftBank, uh, I was with him.
- ▶ 19:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And your five years at SoftBank, right?
- ▶ 25:50 Alok Sama And, you know, maybe leaving SoftBank was a setback, but look what he's accomplished since.
- ▶ 27:47 Alok Sama Um, he, the corporate mission, Southbank is happiness for everyone, which, you know, maybe sounds amusing to most people in the Western world, but I think what he's really getting at is this notion of idealism and wanting to change the…
- ▶ 34:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Maza was right about AI almost 10 years ago, but he couldn't, as you mentioned, fully capitalize it because of the structure of the Vision Fund. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Now, now, now I think, uh, uh, SoftBank, as a fund, not at the company, the company, Massa is full back in glory, but it's, it's nowhere as to being as ambitious where it was. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia One of the, the reasons you described that you joined South Bank was you wanted to like be cool in front of your son.
- ▶ 43:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because even at your role at SoftBank, you've seen Massa being passionate about Indian entrepreneur and backing them ferociously beat Ritesh from Oyo Bhavish from Ola, right?
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:06:49 Deepak Shenoy Softbank sold. 2 times in the scene
Indian Beauty Standards, Marriage & Life Lessons | Vineeta Singh & Kaushik Mukherjee on Neon Show
- ▶ 31:14 Vineeta Singh Because VCs also have to figure out that, you know, NASP or SoftBank will put it in which they plan because that's where their exit comes from.
Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Finding Zomato & Taking the First Tech Company in India to IPO
- ▶ 53:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you have never thought about making it a strategy of exiting partially early on, right, when there were so many backers, like when SoftBank came in.
WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 22:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Softbank group got crashed during those.
Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 0:00 Akhil Gupta August, September, 14, and one fine day, we thought we'll get three terms tomorrow, but then housing.com raised ninety million dollars from soft bank.
- ▶ 9:54 Akhil Gupta But then housing.com raised ninety million dollars from soft bank.
The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
- ▶ 28:52 Nitin Sharma Just like larger institutions like Tiger, SoftBank, and other large funds have benefited from looking at what has gone right in one market and what will work in the other.
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 19:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And in one of your recent tweets you mentioned, right, in the SoftBank era of venture world, strategies like minimum ownership, pro-rata, portfolio construct, single-stage focus would be like bringing a knife to a gunfight. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:09 Abhishek Goyal And actually SoftBank does exactly the same thing. 2 times in the scene
Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- ▶ 11:59 Dhruv Kapoor Uh, and late stage has a lot of capital in terms of Softbank and DSTs and all those guys.
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 7:31 Sanjay Nath Like, for example, look at, I mean, you've seen now the SoftBank WeWork fiasco, right?
- ▶ 30:17 Sanjay Nath See, again, I'm coming back to that SoftBank WeWork example. 2 times in the scene
Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- ▶ 26:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you mentioned about nice guys, but nice founders also, you know, don't last because there are so many things, you know, they don't get the product right after scaling or their competition is funded by SoftBank or the likes. 3 times in the scene
Episode 44 | Kitty Agarwal, Partner, Info Edge Ventures
- ▶ 35:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what do you advise your founders, you know, when, let's say, a SoftBank or an Aspers invest in a competitor?
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 41:54 Anand Lunia And then where will SoftBank invest?
Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 56:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Thereby you need a higher bidder or a bigger investor like Tiger soft bank to come into your venture quickly.
The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- ▶ 13:21 Sarbvir Singh So one player is able to raise, you know, significant capital from one of the big guys, let's say soft bank or somebody, then what happens is that the rest of the players in the industry, even if they're doing a good job or whatever,…
When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
- ▶ 33:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, taking Tribu where you mentioned, you know, the case where a large conglomerate like SoftBank comes in and puts in a billion dollars and dries up the capital in that market. 3 times in the scene
How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- ▶ 11:20 T. N. Hari So you had Sequoia backing them, you had Tiger backing them, you had SoftBank backing them, whereas Taxi for Sure started a year later, and we couldn't get the kind of deep pocketed investors.