Priya Mohan

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Priya Mohan co-founded the edtech platform Vidyartha, which was acquired by Byju's in 2016. She subsequently served as Managing Partner at Venture Highway before joining IT services firm JoulesToWatts as Chief Operating Officer.

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Mohan: Vidyartha data revealed a massive gap between student aptitude and academics

“In Vidyartha, I had this massive data state by state to show how there's a huge gap between aptitude and academics, because kids are taught to score, right? But they're not taught to learn.”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 16:21 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Disclosure

Mohan: Venture Highway obtains board rights without always exercising them immediately

“A lot of these companies, we, you know we have board positions, but we choose to take it at an appropriate time. So we don't necessarily exercise the board position.”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 18:19 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Insight

Mohan: Venture investors cannot control outcomes, only their decision-making quality

“Essentially, this game I've realized is only the quality of decision making. You can't control the outcome, right? There's so many variables.”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 22:01 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Insight

Mohan: Confirmation bias is the biggest psychological trap in venture capital

“I think the biggest, Bias, to be very frank with you is confirmation bias, right? Like, ah, you know, the minute you think you like something about a deal, you're searching and seeking for information which is going to just agree upon the decision which you pe…”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 23:15 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Insight

Mohan: Early-stage venture skill lies in applying frameworks to heterogeneous founders

“What is interesting about this is you can at best create frameworks, But when you apply them, it's applied on such heterogeneous data points, right? You will never find two founders who are the same. You will never find similar profiles. You'll never find simi…”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 23:32 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Insight

Mohan: Great operators do not automatically make great venture capital investors

“If you think you're a good, ah, jockey, great, but don't think being a good jockey is going to automatically make you great at horse picking, right? Those are two different skills, and that's something I learned very quickly.”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 26:10 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Insight

Mohan: Breakout unicorns require conviction-based investment calls, not firm consensus

“Every big Decacon unicorn today is a regret for the VCs who are not in it, right? And if you've seen some of the best journeys, This comes back to the original point which I made in, in answer to your question as to how's the decision-making adventure highway.…”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 42:36 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Opinion

Mohan: A founder's biggest challenge is working without traditional employment validation

“The biggest challenge being a founder is to be able to live without the typical validations that you get being employed”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 35:47 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Disclosure

Mohan: Venture Highway over-indexes on founders and welcomes business model pivots

“Especially at the stage that Venture Highway comes from, we literally over dial on the founder and the founding team, right, and we have some frameworks in our head as to how, ah, you know, about the whole founding team, how to think about it, and essentially …”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 44:51 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

Disclosure

Mohan: Venture Highway uses 'startup sensei' titles to maintain flat structures

“We don't have kind of names in Venture Highway. We don't call ourselves partners. So Vijay, I'm just called a startup sensei. It just blew my mind when Sameer said, I'm not going to give you titles. It's because we really wanted to build a flat organization.”

Priya Mohan Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 6:04 Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Ventur	Nov 9, 2020	35m

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