Brick by Brick: The Magic of Small Teams with Shreyans Bhansali, Employee #1 @ Venmo

Brick by Brick

Shreyans Bhansali is a serial entrepreneur who was employee #1 at Venmo, co-founded Socratic (acquired by Google), and is currently building Maven. He studied computer science and economics at UPenn before diving into the startup world.

In this episode, we talk about :

- Shreyans first foray into tech in middle school

- Why he left his stable consulting job to join Venmo as employee #1

- The early days at Venmo and a crazy SXSW 2010

- The power of talking to people

- The feeling of Product-Market Fit at Venmo

- How to identify great talent for hiring

- Similarities and differences between being an early employee versus being a founder

- What he would have changed about Socratic instead of selling to Google

- Lessons from fatherhood

& lots more

Where to find Shreyans?

Website - https://shreyans.org/

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyansb/

Brick by Brick is presented by Garuda Ventures (https://garuda.vc).

About Garuda Ventures:

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused pre-seed and seed venture fund. Garuda is a first-check firm and aims to earn the right to be a founder's first call as they go about building their companies. To learn more, visit https://www.garuda.vc

Today's episode was hosted by Rishi Taparia. Find Rishi on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rktaparia/), Substack (taps.substack.com) or X/Twitter (x.com/taps)

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