Lakhamraju: Emotional attachment helps early-stage investors but hurts late-stage investors
Mohan Lakhamraju · Mohan Lakhamraju, Founder, Great Learning on building $100 Million ARR EdTech Business in India · Oct 5, 2020 · at 16:47
Mohan Lakhamraju, founder of Great Learning and former Tiger Global investor, contrasts the emotional mindset required in early-stage investing with the objectivity needed in late-stage investing.
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“And I think particularly when you are a late stage and I think it helps when you are an early stage investor, because there, you know, that involvement and investment is required, but as a late stage and public markets investor, that's actually, I think, not a good thing at all. You need to be able to be very objective and decide, you know, when to move on, When to get in and be able to take those calls you know, much more driven by numbers and driven by data.”
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