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Chopra: Stepped down as Wingify CEO because scaling lacked intellectual stimulation
“I think partly it had happened where I felt growing a company was not intellectually stimulating me, and that's one of the reasons I shifted my role from CEO to chairman, and I dived myself in my sabbatical to reading a lot of physics, chemistry, because I jus…”
Chopra: Wingify avoided VC funding because incoming cash exceeded its needs
“We would have raised some funding, but we didn't. You know, we had more amount of money coming in than we knew what to do with it.”
Chopra: True wealth is capital relative to needs, not absolute dollars
“I think it's not the amount of money, but it's amount of money relative to your needs.”
Chopra: An entrepreneur's own company drives net worth more than passive assets
“I think as an entrepreneur, you have to realize that the company that you're working on is the biggest contributor to your future net worth. Because whatever else you invest in, maybe you invest in equity, you may invest in real estate. You don't have as much …”
Chopra: Reinvesting in broken business fundamentals wastes founder capital
“If something is fundamentally broken, if you've not figured out product market fit, if you're, you know, say customer acquisition channels are unprofitable. Just throwing money at it is wasting money. So you have to be like a thinking like an investor first, i…”
Chopra: Investing should be boring; deriving joy from it is speculation
“I think investing should be the most boring thing that you should be doing. If you're trying to derive joy from investing, I think that is speculation and we should call it speculation and it's okay to speculate, but don't call it investing.”
Chopra: Set fixed investment targets first and adjust expenses around them
“I think one should look at their monthly investment target and if possible, and to whatever extent possible, adjust their expenses around it. I think a lot of people do it the reverse way. They spend whatever they can and invest whatever that's left. But I fee…”
Chopra: The more complex a financial instrument sounds, the riskier it is
“The more complex something sounds, the riskier it is.”
Chopra: Wingify's revenue growth strongly correlated with platform A/B test volume
“For example, in our case, we built an A-B testing tool and we knew very clearly that the number of A-B tests that are on our platform are highly correlated with our revenue growth.”
Chopra: A mentor convinced me to price Wingify at $99 instead of $9
“I remember I wanted to price at nine dollars per month and I was chatting with someone who works, who was more experienced and they were like, you're crazy price at 99 dollars per month.”
Chopra: Nintee returned 75% of investor capital and gave 6 months severance
“They got six months of severance and jobs at Wingify and half of the team is still at Wingify. So I felt, and investors got almost seven, 75% of their money back.”
Paras Chopra: Intellectual adult friendships differ from nostalgia-based school friendships
“And I think it's not like how your friends with your school friends or college friends, I think there is a healthy mix of professional respect. So so in that sense, it's a different kind of friendship than How would you hang out with, let's say, a school frien…”
Chopra: Wingify was started with just a $10 server investment
“Investment, my investment in Wingify was literally 10 dollars for a server.”
Chopra: Wingify's annual recurring revenue is around $25 million
“At what point in Wengifire currently Wengifire ARR would be twenty-five million dollars, right? Yeah, in that range.”
Chopra holds a mix of Indian and US index funds for diversification
“It's both a mix of both. I do think one has to, I mean, diversification is the only free lunch in finance. And if you're not diversifying you are taking more volatility, more risk than it's necessary. And having everything tied to India is fine. India is a fas…”
Chopra: Real estate is off my investment list because it requires work
“It has to, it doesn't, it shouldn't require me to work. That's again, like real estate is off the list because it requires me to work. So I want it as passive as possible, requiring as less work for me.”
Chopra: The median published book sells only 10 to 20 copies
“I was reading, I think a median book is sold 10 or 20 copies.”
Chopra: Wingify Was His Fifth Attempt At Building A Startup
“Wingify was my fifth attempt at doing a startup.”
Chopra: Consistently maintains 70% to 80% of his portfolio in equities
“I don't recall ever there was a point where I was, you know, less than like, 70 or 80% equities.”
Chopra focuses on zero-to-one innovation over CEO duties at Wingify
“I realized over a period of time, my strengths are in figuring out and building something new. So that zero to one phase is something AI really enjoy. And B, I think I'm good at that. Having done that a couple of times within Wingify with different products an…”