Pratik Agarwal
@_pagarwal
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looking for Kraantikaaris building public goods of the future @Accel_India @HarvardHBS @iitdelhi
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Joined October 2012
तो क्रांति हो तुम जब मौके को फ़र्ज़ मानते हो, तो क्रांति हो तुम। जब दर्द से डरते नहीं, बल्कि उसे अपना रास्ता बनाते हो, तो क्रांति हो तुम। जब तन-मन को औज़ार में गढ़ते हो, तो क्रांति हो तुम। जब हमसफ़रों में वही जज़्बा जगाते हो, तो क्रांति हो तुम। जब ऐसा जीवन चुनते हो, जिसकी
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Means a lot bro 🤗
This tweetstorm from @_pagarwal gave me so much to think about. I felt full of optimism and courage reading these tweets. Suddenly the world felt like a better place with lots of oportunities. Words have power - especially when they are coming from @_pagarwal
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Alfred and Pat believe that the number one ingredient to becoming a better decision maker in venture (and probably in business more broadly) is courage. "If you're gonna pay a ridiculous amount for a company that you saw and passed on a month ago...like Pat did with
I sat down with Sequoia's new stewards, @gradypb and @Alfred_Lin. Maybe a bit selfishly, I spent almost the entire time asking them about the tactics of how to do venture capital well. I got a ton out of it and hope you do too. Search Uncapped on youtube, spotify, or apple to
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The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.
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“The next Facebook is not a social network”
who is building something different? i love those the most and they continue to form an important part of our portfolio. cradlewise was different. varaha was different. kolo was different. beco was different. fancraze was different. biofuelcircle was different. inito
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Hard relate Very in sync with this We have gone from 15k startups to 150k startups in the last 10 years We will get to a million startups in the next ten. Nothing drives the bull case for India more than sheer entrepreneurial energy.
There is a subtle lack of pride in Indian venture. “US is more exciting.” “They build trillion dollar companies, we build dhanda.” “Big ideas are gone.” This view misses a crucial perspective. Let me explain. 1/n
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Pre-seed DeepTech is probably 'vibe-investing'. At this stage, you’re really trying to understand three things: the founder's motivation to stay in the game for years, their ability to story-tell during the vision-selling phase, and their capacity to eventually commercialize
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India’s tech moment is not coming. It came quietly while everyone argued about TAM. If you have ever fixed a broken workflow here, you already know. The rest will learn the slow way.
There is a subtle lack of pride in Indian venture. “US is more exciting.” “They build trillion dollar companies, we build dhanda.” “Big ideas are gone.” This view misses a crucial perspective. Let me explain. 1/n
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“We are at the beginning of a beginning.” This is a banger of a thread. There’s never been a better time to build.
There is a subtle lack of pride in Indian venture. “US is more exciting.” “They build trillion dollar companies, we build dhanda.” “Big ideas are gone.” This view misses a crucial perspective. Let me explain. 1/n
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"India’s future will not be built by conglomerates. It will be built by - founders who dare talent who execute consumers who demand better VCs who believe" Daring to built the biggest toy company from India :)
India’s future will not be built by conglomerates. It will be built by - founders who dare talent who execute consumers who demand better VCs who believe 15/n
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@_pagarwal 💯 this is India’s decade for both consumer + frontier tech.
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Don’t be a decel. Accel like Pratik does.
There is a subtle lack of pride in Indian venture. “US is more exciting.” “They build trillion dollar companies, we build dhanda.” “Big ideas are gone.” This view misses a crucial perspective. Let me explain. 1/n
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good point @vaibhavbetter, Indians building for the world are definitely increasing and getting more ambitious. Will write about what we're seeing there another day!
Couldn’t agree more with @_pagarwal — the India opp is solid and growing. There will be multiple 100x outcomes in India. At the same time, US venture being non-linearly larger is also true. And therein lies the conundrum - as an investor where do you spend your time? as a
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Absolutely on!
The first wave of investments/ideas went into the "roti kapda makaan" category, and that's okay. Founders/VCs are already deploying the gains from this to invest into deep tech - space, drones, eVTOL, AI, wearables.
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The next decade of India is not incremental. It is Kraantikaari. And if you are in venture or startups, this is your moment. Because the future of India is powered by startups and you have not seen anything yet💥 16/n
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India’s future will not be built by conglomerates. It will be built by - founders who dare talent who execute consumers who demand better VCs who believe 15/n
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India is shifting from unorganized to organized through software. Software organizes markets. Organized markets concentrate. Concentrated markets produce giants. The next decade will surprise everyone. 14/n
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For talent You are not choosing a job. You are choosing the power to reshape the life around you. Startups give you money, mastery and meaning in one shot. 13/n
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For founders Build beyond a business. Build the next layer of next 1.4bn Indians' lifestyle. Your ambition is the true rate limiter. 12/n
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VCs worried about small outcomes are missing the plot. India’s GDP, consumption, aspirations and surplus are compounding together. Markets will get more organized. Winners will get bigger. Outcomes will get massive. 11/n
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