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Dinesh Kandanchatha

CIO & Senior VP, Prime Therapeutics · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dinesh Kandanchatha is the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Prime Therapeutics. He previously co-founded Patriot One Technologies, serving as President and CTO, and has led multiple technology ventures and corporate boards over a 25-year career.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dinesh argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Protus IP Solutions grew from near zero to $80M ARR in six years
“And so it, coming in and then working with the founders and then building out a sales and marketing organization and then taking the revenue to basically zero and then growing it all the way back up to eighty million dollars in software as a service.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 9:53 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

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Everything Dinesh Kandanchatha said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Board members must generate 10x to 20x their pay in value
“Whatever you're getting paid, you have to generate 10 to 20 times that in value. Otherwise you won't keep your seat. So if you can't, if you're getting paid a thousand bucks a month, you better be able to generate Like 20,000 dollars in either cost savings or …”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 3:49 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Insight
Startup lawsuits sideline founders regardless of who is legally right
“Well, it's the funny thing I learned about that process is it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. No, totally. It just puts you on the sidelines”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 8:00 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2019
Kandanchatha predicts Patriot One Technologies will become a billion-dollar company
“And I want to make sure that I'm, that it's going to get executed effectively and it's going to be a billion dollar company.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 14:50 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Insight
Kandanchatha charges advisory fees so founders value his advice
“I also, you know, do some consulting work and board work. But that's mostly just that's just mostly to support the entrepreneurs and, you know, put, Put a dollar beside it so that people don't ignore what I say.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 2:50 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Disclosure
Kandanchatha works one day weekly with his pre-seed portfolio companies
“I'm pre-Series A, often pre-seed, and what I'm trying to do there is Take my capital and amplify it with my network and my experience. So you need to take 75 K Worth of capital, but then I'm working with you. I'm putting a day into your business and a day a we…”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 6:15 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Assertion Supported
Protus IP Solutions grew from near zero to $80M ARR in six years
“And so it, coming in and then working with the founders and then building out a sales and marketing organization and then taking the revenue to basically zero and then growing it all the way back up to eighty million dollars in software as a service.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 9:53 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Disclosure
Kandanchatha targets 3% to 5% equity stakes for 10x returns
“And that's kind of my thing is I kind of get in at the three, four, five percent Level. And then, you know, help really scale that up to through those three things, capital, network, and expertise to turn, you know, get a 10 X return.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 11:09 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Disclosure
Kandanchatha sees 20 deals a year and invests in two
“I probably see around 20 deals a year, of which I would invest in two and a bunch of the other ones I continue to advise.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 5:52 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Disclosure
Kandanchatha writes angel checks between $75k and $150k
“Between 75 and 150 K, depending on what's there, and you know, it's small money, I guess, in some ways.”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 6:04 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kandanchatha spent hundreds of thousands defending an early startup lawsuit
“I ended up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal battles instead of building my company”
Dinesh Kandanchatha Dec 24, 2016 ▶ 8:06 EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investmen Dec 24, 2016 9m
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