A VC’s Funny Relationship With Money (From the Navy to Startup World, Solving the Biggest Problems For Your Customers, Achieving Financial Freedom) - Maanav Sagar - Episode #27

How did you identify the opportunities that unintentionally gave rise to the creation of your own business?

One day, Maanav asked a restaurant owner if he knows who the biggest spender in the restaurant is, and he didn’t get an answer. This encounter sparked the idea of developing a tech product aimed at enhancing restaurant service to customers. Although his startup venture, like many others, had a limited lifespan, this experience fueled his fascination with delving further into entrepreneurship and eventually becoming a Venture Capitalist.

Maanav is now a Partner at Bharat Founders Fund (BFF), which is an early stage venture group, of the most successful Indian entrepreneurs globally, and they’ve got a great portfolio of some exciting companies.

In this episode, Maanav and I talked about:

💡 06:06 Finding opportunities everywhere

🛠️ 11:11 Solving the right problems (and truly understanding product market fit)

💔 12:54 Dealing with self-doubt and self-worth after shutting down his business

↪️ 14:21 His strange path to becoming a VC (from making money, to taking other people’s money)

👥 19:50 Choosing between serial and first time entrepreneurs

💸 01:00:56 Defining financial freedom

If you’ve been dreaming of being a full time investor like me, then you’ll be chewing up the golden nuggets from my conversation with Maanav Sagar of Bharat Founders Fund.

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