Garg: Only a handful of Indian tech companies exceed $30M–$40M ARR
Nishit Garg · Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg · Jul 20, 2024 · at 26:06
Nishit Garg, Partner at RTP Global, discusses the US go-to-market scaling bottleneck facing Indian SaaS and pure software startups.
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“A lot of Indian companies are, have started to reach A million to million type of ARRs, but have not a lot of companies beyond a few that you can count on your hands are beyond the 30, forty million ARR today.”
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