Lunia: Consumer brand outcome sizes will equal major tech startup exits
Anand Lunia · Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient · Feb 17, 2020 · at 32:53
Anand Lunia compares the upside potential of physical consumer brands like Sugar Cosmetics against fast-scaling social media platforms.
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“When we do a brand, we do believe that it might take longer, but the size of the outcome will be no less than the size of a social media or a hotshot tech company.”
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