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Aneja: Sector-focused funds expand across geographies faster than generalists
“I think we have been able to do it because we are sector focused. We can traverse the bridge of the sector to cover geographies much faster than anybody else who might be a generalist investor.”
Job seekers refuse to pay for employability skills, shifting costs to employers
“Employability is a pain that is, ah, felt really by the, ah, employer, and therefore the willingness to pay on part of the job seeker is limited because the job seeker is of the opinion that they've got a degree or a diploma and that's good enough, and often t…”
Aneja: Rapid fund scaling risks compromising foundational ethos and processes
“If you try to achieve scale very rapidly, ah, then you're possibly giving up on the foundational activities which are needed, which is to build a set of ethos, investment focused processes, and people which are critical for the next 10 years.”
Aneja: Kaizen rejected substantial LP capital to protect its core strategy
“Investors we were talking to came back, and some were very excited, but they wanted us to change our strategy, or wanted us to do things which were inordinate, and they were putting a lot of money behind that, saying, if you do this, changes, we will put so mu…”
Aneja: KLAY expanded from one center to 150 across India
“And this was a company that we invested in when there was only one center in Whitefield, and now it has 150 centers throughout the country, probably the best in the country in quality, and what they hope to change.”
Missing the chance to invest in LinkedIn was Aneja's biggest career shock
“I would say that's LinkedIn for me, in my past before Kaizen, I missed out on LinkedIn. That is the biggest shock of my life today.”