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Nitin Sharma

Partner and Co-founder, Antler India · 1 appearance on the record.

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investorexecutive@nitinsharma1 ↗antler.co ↗

He co-leads Antler’s investments and founder programs in India, focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage startups in sectors such as software, AI, and Web3. Prior to Antler, he founded FirstPrinciples VC, served on the founding team at Lightbox Ventures, and has backed companies including Fynd, Kutumb, and OnJuno.

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Assertion Supported
30 million people travel on local inter-town Indian buses every day
“There are three crore people who travel in these buses every day and their experience has not changed.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 41:34 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India

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

Insight
Deep customer obsession is an innate trait that cannot be taught
“You cannot teach this behavior. This is something which is some founders are born with, right?”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 36:30 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Opinion
Indian fintech credit products completely ignore all but the top 40M people
“All of the FinTech we see in India, Is really focused on improving, you know, credit access for the top 30, forty million people, three, four crores.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 46:12 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Insight
Venture capital pressure forces founders to chase artificial growth prematurely
“We see expectations put a lot of pressure on that to artificially grow sometimes faster than the business or the customer need can be solved that. And so I think it's not just the founder's fault, frankly, it's investors play a big role in, in distorting that …”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 47:22 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Insight
Venture capitalists need optimism to avoid misery given long feedback cycles
“If you're not optimistic in this business, you will get miserable because it's a long game. The feedback cycles are very long.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 17:58 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Founders starting companies in the 2022 to 2024 market will be fantastic
“And we actually think that people jumping into entrepreneurship in the next year or two are going to be the real fantastic founders, right?”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 18:56 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Insight
Once startups have product data, fundraising becomes purely a capital game
“When you've already started a company and have a product and have a date, have data, a lot of people you could talk to. And it becomes largely a capital game.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 27:12 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Insight
Founders commonly stop talking to users as teams scale to 100 people
“One of the things that happens very commonly, I think is when founders go from that nucleus of one or two people to 10 and a hundred I've seen even with the best intentions, they stop talking to users because they rely on two or three other layers and it's, yo…”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 38:27 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Disclosure
Investors target space tech software and data over capital-intensive hardware
“We are very bullish on space tech. One of our team members is, is very deep into it. And we are actually publishing something on it soon. But of course there are, you know, we are trying to play, for example, in the software or the application or data side of …”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 48:57 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kutumb founders interviewed 2,000 customers before writing a single line of code
“The Kutum founders had probably spoken to 2000 customers before they even started to build.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 37:06 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
Assertion Supported
30 million people travel on local inter-town Indian buses every day
“There are three crore people who travel in these buses every day and their experience has not changed.”
Nitin Sharma Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 41:34 The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler Jul 18, 2022 22m
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