Shah: Investors unable to assist founders should stick to public markets
Mitesh Shah · Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures · Mar 30, 2021 · at 26:08
Mitesh Shah, co-founder of Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), outlines why early-stage angel investing is an active asset class requiring direct involvement.
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“If you cannot spend time in understanding the ecosystem or working with the founder to help him, probably startup investments are not for you. You should actually be investing in public market where you will have access to information every quarter and everything will be transparent. Here the idea is that information will be closely guarded and you have to work with the founder to kind of have access to that information, right?”
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