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Deepak Gupta

Founder, Equitycrest · 1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.62/5average certainty → 1.85/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 5 assertions · 6 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Deepak argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Gupta: VC Deal Volume Won't Drop by Half in 9 Months
“I'm not sure the, you know, in nine months time, we will be doing only half the deals that we did before. We'll be doing probably better than that.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 27:59 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Deepak Gupta: Most VC-Funded Founders in Recent Years Are Under Thirty
“Most of the entrepreneurs that have been funded in the last five years are relatively young, right? On average, sub-thirty.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 20:51 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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50% certainty 3
75% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Deepak Gupta on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Deepak Gupta said on the Neon Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Deepak Gupta: High-volume seed dealmaking does not yield good companies
“We also do not think that just doing large numbers of deals is the answer to get to good companies.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 15:12 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Prediction Held up
Gupta: VC Deal Volume Won't Drop by Half in 9 Months
“I'm not sure the, you know, in nine months time, we will be doing only half the deals that we did before. We'll be doing probably better than that.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 27:59 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Insight
Gupta: Investors Should Keep Deploying in Downturns Rather Than Withdrawing
“A downturn is not necessarily a crisis. So, if you can hold your conviction and invest, you should do that. It may be harder to invest at the same rate, and it's probably foolish to do that, but I don't think a complete withdrawal is something that I would pur…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 6:54 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Insight
Gupta: Even Top Founders Flounder in Multi-Year Market Downturns
“If you see the Nasdaq downturn, It was actually quite prolonged. It was for more than two years. And in those kind of downturns, even the best of founders may flounder simply because, you know, it's very hard to sustain a business over two, three years of a do…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 7:24 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Insight
Gupta: Startups With Crisis Tailwinds Should Play Offense, Not Just Survive
“So if you are in the tailwind sector, many of our companies are, especially those who have content, or even small case and you have the capital, then you should be, what I call, semi-aggressive. Because if you see the general advice, it is survive. I think sur…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 17:49 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Insight
Gupta: Startups on weaker footing during prolonged crises should pursue M&A
“I would actively urge companies who are slightly in a weaker footing to think through potential M&A possibilities. Because, ah, you know, if raising capital is going to be difficult, and they will lose some competitive advantage during the, if this crisis is s…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 19:44 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Insight
Gupta: Crisis Survival Requires Pragmatism That Contradicts The Passion VCs Seek
“When the crisis hits one of the things is to be pragmatic and non-emotional, right? Which is actually a contradictory quality to when we appraise entrepreneurs upfront where we want them to be passionate and all that. But they have to be sort of passionate and…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 21:23 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Half of WEH Ventures Portfolio Outperformed Due to COVID-19 Tailwinds
“I mean, if I look at our portfolio, I would say at least half the companies are actually doing better than maybe they would have if this had not come.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 23:44 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Lower Post-COVID Costs Mean Seed Startups Need $700K, Not $1M
“I think if the companies at seed stage have adequate runway, then that runway should last them longer because the cost of doing business should go down, right? So the cost of hiring will go down. Also rental should go down. So, you know, if you needed a millio…”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 26:36 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Assertion Partly supported
Gupta: The ETF share of the US market has crossed 50%
“The market now in US is 50% in ETFs. They've crossed over.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 12:00 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Assertion Supported
Gupta: India's low-cost ETF market grew from 2% to nearly 6%
“At that point also it was a very high percentage, but in India it was only two percent. People were not aware of low cost passive investing. That market has now grown from two percent to almost six percent.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 12:20 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Smallcase Inflows Remained Strong During Early COVID-19 Crash
“Even now, if you see in the COVID situation, the inflows are actually pretty strong. So the Indian retail investor continues to hold forth.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 13:20 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
Assertion Contradicted
Deepak Gupta: Most VC-Funded Founders in Recent Years Are Under Thirty
“Most of the entrepreneurs that have been funded in the last five years are relatively young, right? On average, sub-thirty.”
Deepak Gupta May 11, 2020 ▶ 20:51 Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups

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Appearances (1)

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Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups May 11, 2020 21m
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