Verma: Corporate executives struggle to build startups due to rigid thinking
Sameer Brij Verma · Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners · Feb 14, 2020 · at 39:55
Sameer Brij Verma, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners, reflects on his investing mistakes and explains why corporate executives often struggle as startup founders.
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“The other thing is that I think I'm also made mistakes where I've invested into people who are kind of Corporate executives. And you know, just thought that corporate executives could build startups. I think those are the things. It goes back to the same rigidity and you know, agility kind of a point because they were just stuck in doing things in a particular way, or they were mimicking building out companies or startups in a way in which they were doing like their own functions or divisions in large companies. They never oriented with a company with very fast on the feet kind of people, but You know, more of the same large, big company thinking. Those unfortunately haven't worked out very well for me.”
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