total addressable market

also referred to as: tam

8 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2021 by Dilipkumar Khandelwal · across every show →

Everything said about total addressable market, oldest first

Mar 15, 2021 neutral
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Khandelwal: TAM Matters Less for Early Category-Defining Startups
“So I think I put left focus on TAM in the beginning because of the phase, I mean, it is very difficult. If you're investing in a known category, you always know what is the market that exists. It's all the companies which you try to invest or what you try to t…”
Dilipkumar Khandelwal Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 11:36 Dilipkumar Khandelwal on building a strong portfolio of B2B SaaS companies as an Angel Investor
Apr 25, 2022 negative
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Top-Down TAM Calculations Are Useless Beyond Checking Market Viability, Says Shivku
“So this is, I think the top down way of arriving at TAM, which is not really useful beyond the fact that you want to just ensure that you are working in a space that's at least a couple billion dollars in size so that you know that there's enough market to go …”
Shivakumar Ganesan Apr 25, 2022 ▶ 56:55 Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
Jul 14, 2023 negative
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Traditional TAM Calculations Fail When Industries Are Actively Being Restructured
“What I'm saying is that when new markets have been created when industry is being restructured, what you thought was TAM may not be the TAM.”
Sanjeev Bikhchandani Jul 14, 2023 ▶ 47:05 Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Finding Zomato & Taking the First Tech Company in India to IPO
Dec 29, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Titan Capital Seeks Superlative Products Dominating Small Total Addressable Markets
“We look for a very small TAM But a product which is absolutely superlative, that at least within that small TAM, whatever you've built has the ability to dominate the market.”
Rohit Bansal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 41:54 Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
Dec 29, 2023
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Expanding TAM From a Loved Niche Is Easier Than Fixing Weak Products
“We've seen it is a lot easier to replicate that love over a period of time to a larger and larger TAM and keep expanding the TAM of your business while maintaining that sort of absolute love in place versus playing in a very large TAM. With a product that peop…”
Rohit Bansal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 21:56 Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
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Makhija: Indian SaaS founders should target depth over initial TAM size
“You need to start small because India rewards depth more than width. So you need to go deep. Solve for the pain points. The way we have built is to listen deeply to our customers and continue to evolve as their needs evolve. And through this journey, the produ…”
Kapil Makhija Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 4:33 7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
Apr 2, 2026
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Jindal: Large TAMs give startups multiple chances to survive early mistakes
“I'm a big believer that if the market you are in, if the market has a big opportunity, you as a company will get a lot more chances to make it work, right? If you're in a market with a small dam you do, do one thing wrong and you're out of business more than l…”
Manish Jindal Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 2:29 Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
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