Garg: VCs will rethink power-law models if profitable $300M–$400M IPOs succeed
Nishit Garg · Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg · Jul 20, 2024 · at 32:41
Nishit Garg, Partner at RTP Global, discusses whether venture capitalists will adapt their return expectations to support smaller, profitable IPO outcomes.
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“If there is a, you know, there is a series of outcomes of, you know, 305, four hundred million dollars of businesses which have been capital efficient, being profitable from early days and good IPOs. I think the VCs will also start thinking very differently for those.”
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