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
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…”
Apr 25, 2022 negative
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 …”
Jul 14, 2023 negative
Dec 29, 2023 positive
Dec 29, 2023
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…”
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
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…”
Apr 2, 2026
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…”