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Becoming a VC

Growing up in a middle class family in India, entrepreneurship was not even in the universal set of career options I could aspire to. Everyone in my family was an engineer. Entrepreneurship or starting a business was not even remotely in my cultural consciousness. Let alone venture capital. In fact,

The Creator Economy Chasm

The internet has given rise to the “Creative Class”. They are the 50 million people online who consider themselves creators. The kids who, instead of dreaming of becoming a doctor or an engineer, aspire for Youtube or Tiktok success. Platforms like Twitch, Substack, and Patreon have unleashed this, previously untapped,

The Art of the Seed Pitch

I meet 20+ seed and pre-seed founders every week. Every founder has a unique presentation style. Some like to go through the deck slide by slide. Others prefer a more dynamic conversation without a deck. After studying hundreds of pitches, the most effective and efficient pitches follow this framework — Founder-Product-Market-Fit.

SuperSub - The Future of Sports

12 years ago, Kevin Kelly, WIRED editor, wrote a prescient essay predicting the rise of the creator economy. He asserted that creators can build sustainable revenue by deeply monetizing a small base of die-hard true fans. Today, this creator economy is thriving in a lot of different verticals. Platforms and

Mapping Digital Food Entertainment

This week I was looking through my credit card bills and I realized something weird. Quarantine has been BRUTAL for my food delivery spending. Before, I would eat a meal at work and somehow muster up the oomph to cook dinner at home. Now, sitting at home 24x7, I have

Entering the Metaverse

It’s 2030 and I am Netflix and chilling inside Fortnite! Thanks to this new Party Royale mode that just came out, I don’t even have to run around in the video game anymore, I can just lounge around on my couch. Wait what!?! Let’s start from the

Hunger Games

Today, Fedex announced their same-day delivery robot which signals another major player throwing their hat into the 'autonomous delivery bot' ring - following in the footsteps of Amazon Scout, Softbank-backed Nuro, Marble, Kiwi, and others. Recently, I have been researching and thinking about this space where it seems

Calculators

Yesterday, I was chatting with someone about the evolution of calculators and the importance of mental math. Growing up in India, no calculators were allowed K-12. Even undergrad colleges in India did not allow the use of calculators in classrooms. In comparison, when I came to college here in the