1947 Rise Shiva Singh Sangwan

Ruchit Agarwal is the co-founder and CFO of CARS24.
CARS24 is a leading AutoTech company streamlining and revolutionizing the sale, purchase, and financing of pre-owned cars in India, Australia, Thailand, and UAE
CARS 24 is currently valued at $3.3 Billion.

00:00 - Top Moments
01:03 - Intro
02:10 - What were few things, that shaped you while you were growing up?
19:41 - What were some company dying experiences? What has helped you overcome those challenges?
27:32 - What's the magical outcome, you as a team hold for Cars24?
29:50 - What was the topmost milestone you had set early on?
33:53 - How do you think people should look at the possibility of moving back to India? What are the opportunities that you see in India?
42:55 - How do you, set and control your own ambition?
46:17 - What was the realisation?
48:25 - What's been, making you smile lately?
49:30 - How have you been sleeping, lately?
50:47 - What's the next metric that you're working on in terms of health?
53:36 - What do your friends know you for?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Ruchit Agarwal
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🐦 Twitter - https://x.com/ruchitagarwal1

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Leo is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures and Humba Ventures. He writes $1m-$3m checks via Susa, mostly in B2B SaaS companies, and $250k-$500k checks via Humba, mostly in deep tech and in critical sectors (manufacturing, energy, defense, etc). Humba is a new early stage fund in the Susa fund family.

00:00 - Top moments
01:09 - Intro
02:30 - What led you into investing? What was the founding story of Susa Ventures?
04:43 - What was the portfolio construction and the thesis of Susa Ventures? And has it evolved over time?
07:30 - What’s the thesis around Humba and What’s the portfolio construction around it?
10:12 - What’s the most overrated advice that you’ve heard about fundraising for funds?
12:03 - How would you go about, sourcing LPs, building relationships, and closing LPs?
13:49 -What was the the hardest lesson or the biggest mistake, that you did as a group when you were fundraising and you realized later on?
15:40 - How have you, improved over in each segment, around sourcing?
19:37 - What’s the best way to build a great deal flow?
21:23 - How one can think about building a brand?
22:45 - What’s your take on picking?
25:26 - What do you think are the biggest lies out there?
27:50 - How much do you think, investing is random and luck?
29:47 - What’s the hardest thing, about building Susa Ventures and Humba Ventures?
31:40 - What’s making you smile lately?
32:49 - Is there a hack that you can’t live your life without?
34:18 - If you’re hosting a dinner, and could invite three folks, dead or alive, who would they be?
35:18 - What do your friends know you for?

Prashant is the co-founder of EaseMyTrip. Ease my trip is among very few consumer-startups in the world, that bootstrapped all the way till IPO & later even became a unicorn.

Raghu is the founder of Zolve. Zolve is world's first cross-border Neobank. Before Zolve, Raghu built and sold ride hailing startup Taxi for sure to Ola for $200M dollars

00:00 - Top Moments
01:25 - Intro
03:41 - How are you both sleeping these days?
08:40 - What were the scariest moments while building your company? How did you persist through it?
30:37 - What’s been your relationship with health?
49:34 - What’s been your relationship with desire? How do you set and manage your ambition?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Prashant Pitti
👥 Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpitti/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ppitti?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH
👥 Linkedin -   / graghunandan  
🐦 Twitter -   / raghugnandan  

Vinny Pujji is the Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital. Left Lane Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology companies. Notable investments include GoStudent, Jackpocket, Bilt Rewards and many more

Before Left Lane Vinny was at Insight Partners - where he led insights investments in India

00:00 - Top moments
01:32 - Intro
03:16 - How did you get into the world of investing and What is the founding story of Left Lane Capital?
07:56 - Founders were telling you, "hey, there's something that you're doing. Not many people are doing out there" What is that really specifically?"
10:31 - How did you arrive at that portfolio construction and thesis?
12:53 - Do you think being a global firm gives you an edge? If so how does it give you an edge?
15:53 - What's been the hardest thing for you in terms of building the fund?
19:26 - Do you remember, an inflection point in your investing career that just changed your trajectory as an investor?
22:54 - How has your relationship to investing in India started? How has it evolved over time?
26:41 - How did the investment oppourtunity of AstroTalk come about?
29:59 - What's been the biggest learnings for you through working with the founders in India?
32:52 - What needs to be true for founders in India to get funded by Vinnie and the team at Left Lane Capital?
34:28 - What's been making you smile lately?
35:07 - What's your relationship with health?
37:18 - How's tennis, going for you?
38:27 - What was like your most favorite thing about India?
39:26 - Who are you outside of work?



🔗 CONNECT WITH Vinny Pujji
👥 Linkedin -   / vpujji  
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/vpujji?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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🐦 Twitter -   / 1947rise  
👥 Linkedin -   / shiva-sin.  .

Aditya Agarwal is the Partner at South Park Commons.
SPC is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0.
Prior to SPC Aditya was the CTO of Dropbox and he was one of Facebook’s first engineers.

00:00 - Top moments
01:22 - Intro
02:41 - What is the founding story of South Park Commons?
13:26 - What is the thesis and the portfolio construction of the fund?
15:12 - What type of check sizes are these and what is the portfolio construction like?
16:30 -What are some examples of companies that have gone from -1 to 0 under SPC?
19:09 - What are some examples of companies that got incubated or took a bigger route?
23:03 - What has been the hardest thing about building SPC?
25:17 - What are your learnings from backing these top founders? What are some similar patterns?
28:45 - What is your relationship with India? What are your learnings from working with Indian founders?
31:36 - How can Indian companies apply for SPC?
32:35 - Are you looking to spend more time in India and what is your view on India?
35:44 - What's been making you smile these days?
36:22 - What's your relationship with health?
39:27 - What is that one hack, that you cannot live your life without?
40:01 - What's on your techno playlist these days

🔗 CONNECT WITH Aditya Agarwal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/adityaag

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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Nitin is the co-founder of Ofbusiness, a $6 billion dollar company and Pratham is the founder of Masters Union - A leading technology-focused b-school led by veteran leaders, offering an industry immersive PGP.

00:00 - Top moments
01:28 - Introduction
02:27 - How are you both sleeping these days?
06:38 - How is Nitin able to persist through everything and do it?
10:00 - What's the secret behind Pratham's energy and persistence?
16:13 - What is Nitin's framework to make it big in life?
20:47- What is Pratham's framework to make it big in life?
23:01- How does Nitin manage the relationship with his support systems while building the company?
26:00 - How does Pratham manage the relationship with his support systems while building the company?
29:33 - What's been making you smile lately, Nitin?
31:35 - What's been making you smile lately, Pratham?
33:05 - Your thoughts on the importance of support systems in life?
34:34 -To what extent Money should define us?
36:14 - The Importance of Work-Life Balance: Should we trade of personal life for work life?
39:27-How do people who work with/under you find break from work?
44:07 - How to tackle overworking and burnout?
46:26 - What are your food habits?
50:38 - If your company were a superhero what superpowers would it have? And who would be your arch nemisis?
56:45 - do you battle not having a sense of belonging?
58:45 - How to take breaks and manage them?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Nitin Jain
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-jain-17b82310/?originalSubdomain=in
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/njain351

🔗 CONNECT WITH Pratham Mittal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathammittal/?originalSubdomain=in
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/prathammittal?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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