Rajan Anandan

14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2023 by Rajan Anandan · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Sep 2, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Rajan Anandan: Governance failures are a global VC issue, not unique
“FTX, okay, is like 10 times. You look at FTX, you look at, this doesn't happen only in India, right? I mean, I know it's happened to us, and obviously we should collectively do a lot more to make sure that we mature the ecosystem that we used to be. But if you…”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 33:47 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Rajan Anandan: Peak XV has produced 19 portfolio company IPOs
“As peak 15, we've had 19 IPOs, right?”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 38:10 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rajan Anandan: Peak XV has over 400 active portfolio companies
“Peak 15 has 400 plus active companies.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 20:35 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rajan Anandan: Only China and India have 100 cities over 1M population
“Only two by the way, China and India.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 1:01:47 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 positive
Insight
Rajan Anandan: Angels should exit if a startup cannot 5x further
“Around 2012 or 13, I learned this simple thing as an angel, which is every time there's a round, you ask yourself a simple question. Can it five X from here or not? So if it can't, as an angel, the good thing is, You can exit.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 29:25 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 bearish
Insight
Rajan Anandan: Indian consumer brands must go offline after 50-100 crore revenue
“Three years ago, you could get to 300 crores offline, online, and then you went offline. Today, that number is more like 50 to a hundred crores for two reasons. One, online has gotten more expensive as the more and more brands have come up online, so cost of a…”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 1:05:22 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rajan Anandan: Mamaearth hit 2,000 crore revenue and profitability in seven years
“Mama Earth from launch to a thousand crores took five years and in seven years is 2000 crores and profitable.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 1:05:06 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 positive
Insight
Rajan Anandan: Founders from humble backgrounds show the greatest drive
“Because I think hunger, you can't teach hunger. You know the drive, the hunger, the, I think people who come from nothing, who have a point to prove, I think they generally tend to be the ones that.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 17:50 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 negative
Insight
Rajan Anandan: Angel investing solely for returns is a bad idea
“If your objective is to make returns, being an angel investor, unless you really know what you're doing, and you're deeply networked, and you can add tremendous value, is not a good idea.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 42:14 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rajan Anandan: Peak XV manages $9B with $2.5B in dry powder
“So, so Peak 15 has about nine billion under management. Of that two and a half billion is dry powder.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 20:09 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rajan Anandan: ONDC will disrupt the mobility sector first
“I do think over the next, maybe not in the near term, but over the medium term, ONDC will have a significant impact, but it's going to start with mobility.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 1:09:50 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 negative
Insight
Rajan Anandan: Pitches fail instantly if they lack a wow insight
“I would say, look, basically if I don't say wow even once because of lack of insight.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 2:01:49 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023
Assertion Supported
Rajan Anandan: India has roughly 6,000 active angel investors
“About 6000 of them. 6000 active angel investors.”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 44:52 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 2, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rajan Anandan: Indian startup funding reached over $40B in 2021
“The total funding into Indian startups was over forty billion dollars. That was up from ten billion in twenty-twenty, and 20, I mean, this depends on like which data, but twenty-nineteen was fourteen billion, right?”
Rajan Anandan Sep 2, 2023 ▶ 2:03:56 Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
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